Angle of Attack : Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon

New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1992. NEW (never read) condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket (only very light shelfwear). NO chips, tears, or fading. Clean, square, and tight. NOT a book club edition. NOT price clipped ($22.95). NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked -- obviously never read. 1992. First printing with "First Edition" so stated and with complete number row (1234567890) on the copyright page. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original green boards with a black cloth spine stamped in bright pink metallic. From the dust jacket: "Apollo, the most ambitious engineering project ever undertaken by man: to build a rocket 36 stories high, load it with the explosive power of a nuclear device, put men on top of it, and shoot it to the moon... ANGLE OF ATTACK is the story of one of America's most triumphant achievements... In the panic that follows the Soviet launch of Sputnik, it is Harrison Storms, the legendary chief engineer of North American Aviation, who captures the job of building the Apollo spacecraft. Storms is one of the country's foremost airplane designers... but building the ship that will carry the astronauts to the moon and back is a challenge of a new and frightening order... To wage the battle, Storms assembles a vast technical empire that includes some of the greatest minds in industrial America." Wally Schirra: "We wouldn't have been able to go into space and return safely if it wasn't for Harrison Storms and his army of can-do designers, builders, and technicians. They beat impossible odds, day after day, so that Apollo could get to the moon and back. Mike Gray's book brings it all back as vivid and dramatic as the day it happened." Buzz Aldrin: "Few people know the real story behind the building of Apollo, but Mike Gray has managed to capture the drama and excitement of those urgent times." Keywords: Werner von Braun, Neil Armstrong, John F. Kennedy, The Right Stuff. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. New condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 304pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.