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"It's surprising that the man most responsible for the spindly Apollo lunar landers, Tom Kelly, hasn't told his story years before. Lucid and engaging, he tells how his team at Grumman in Bethpage, Long Island, went from paper studies to delivering hardware that would help change history. Beyond historical interest, the book has lessons for anyone involved in a large project at the cutting edge of technology."--IEEE Spectrum
." . . Written in an approachable style, and if you have even a passing interest in space exploration it will grip your interest. It constitutes an important primary source for the history of human exploration . . . This book is a flat-out good read."--Meteoritics and Planetary Science
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