@article{857193,
      recid = {857193},
      author = {Sandler, Martin W.,},
      title = {Apollo 8 : the mission that changed everything /},
      pages = {159 pages :},
      abstract = {"A nation in need of hope, the most powerful rocket ever  launched, and the first three men to break the bounds of  Earth: Apollo 8 was headed to the moon. In 1957, when the  USSR launched Sputnik I, the first man-made satellite to  orbit Earth, America's rival in the Cold War claimed  victory on a new frontier. The Space Race had begun, and  the United States was losing. Closer to home, a decade of  turbulence would soon have Americans reeling, with the year  1968 alone seeing the assassinations of Martin Luther King  Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy as well as many violent clashes  between police and protesters. Americans desperately needed  something good to believe in, and NASA's mission to orbit  Earth in Apollo 8 and test a lunar landing module was being  planned for the end of the year. But with four months to go  and the module behind schedule, the CIA discovered that the  USSR was preparing to send its own mission around the  moon--another crucial victory in the Space Race--and it was  clearly time for a change of plan. In a volume full of  astonishing full-color photographs, including the iconic  Earthrise photo, Martin W. Sandler unfolds an incredible  chapter in U.S. history: Apollo 8 wouldn't just orbit  Earth, it would take American astronauts to see the dark  side of the moon."--Amazon.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/857193},
}