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The amazing inside story of Apollo 11 - The Right Stuff for a new generation

Margate is in the grip of a heatwave when David Whitehouse stumbles across the mysterious story of a local woman who lived on the ground floor of Saltwater Mansions, a block of flats not far from the sea. On paper, Caroline Lane was unremarkable. She paid her mortgage every month. She always paid her bills. But nobody had seen or heard from her for 13 years, and no one had ever come looking. She had disappeared completely.David quickly becomes as fascinated by this missing woman as the residents of Saltwater Mansions, all of whom have their own theories to share, and their own unique stories to tell. As his obsession grows, David unearths vital clues that private detectives and amateur investigators alike have failed to spot. But the closer he gets to the truth, the clearer it becomes that this mystery was never meant to be solved, and that some stories don't want to be told. What if this one was never about Caroline Lane at all?From acclaimed and award-winning author David Whitehouse, Saltwater Mansions is an astonishing work of creative non-fiction blending reportage and memoir to explore the extraordinary hidden lives of ordinary people, the impact of grief, and the dangerous allure of taking true crime stories into our own hands.

Da Apollo 11 ble skutt opp 16. juli 1969 satt 6-700 millioner mennesker klistret til TV-skjermene. Raketten nådde en hastighet på 11 kilometer i sekundet (ca. 40 000 km/t) og etter fire dager i rommet kunne Neil Armstrong og Edwin «Buzz» Aldrin styre månelandingsfartøyet Eagle til en vellykket landing, mens Michael Collins passet hovedfartøyet som gikk i bane rundt månen.Sovjetunionen hadde i lang tid ledet romkappløpet, ved å sende opp den første satellitten (Sputnik 1), det første levende vesen i bane rundt Jorden (hunden Laika) og det første menneske i verdensrommet (Jurij Gagarin). Derfor var jubelen stor i USA da Neil Armstrong tok det første steget på månen, ikke minst fordi president John F. Kennedy hadde sagt at USA skulle sende en mann til månen og bringe ham trygt hjem igjen i løpet av 1960-årene.I denne unike og oppsiktsvekkende boken, som utgis i forbindelse med 50-årsjubileet i juli 2019, avslører David Whitehouse det sanne dramaet bak romkappløpet og månelandingen. Det er thrillerkvaliteter over denne beretningen om storpolitisk rivalisering, visjonære ledere, fatale feilgrep, store ingeniørbragder, dramatiske ulykker, imponerende heltemot og tragiske dødsfall. Forfatteren har hatt tilgang på eksklusivt kildemateriale og snakket med besetningen i Apollo 11 og de mange astronautene som banet vei, men vi møter også ingeniører, politikere, NASA-tjenestemenn og sovjetiske rivaler. Til sammen gir de oss den dramatiske historien som leder frem til et av de største øyeblikkene i menneskehetens historie.

A hundred years on from the first Moon landing, where will space exploration have taken us?

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Traces the story of glass from its origins in Mesopotamia some 5000 years ago, to the creation of the elegant vessels of the Islamic Near East, the superb mastery of Renaissance Venice and the creation of modern glassware for daily use.

2011's most heart-breaking debut