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Man Who Ran the Moon: James E. Webb and the Secret History of Project Apollo
Man Who Ran the Moon: James E. Webb and the Secret History of Project Apollo | Piers Bizony
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Traces the career of a top NASA chief and the undue accusations of corruption that tainted his reputation after the 1967 grounding of Apollo, in an account that reveals his pivotal role in the nation's triumphant lunar landing and NASA's ongoing success. By the author of The Rivers of Mars.
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This biography of James Webb, the NASA administrator who made Apollo happen, was concisely written and fascinating. I'm sad it's out of print because Webb is a man who's largely been forgotten to history, but his sheer force of will is one of the main reasons we made it to the moon.

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