Moon Shot

The successes of the space program--the first orbital flight, the first spacewalk, the first moon landing--and the stories of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs written by two member of the original U.S. astronaut team (known as Mercury 7), including Alan Shepard, America's first man in space. This chronology begins with the origins of the U.S. space program in the late 1950s and ends with the 1975 Apollo Soyuz Test Project, but focuses on the stories of Alan Shepard and Donald K. ("Deke") Slayton.