On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was born. Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation’s most daring test pilots: the seven males who have been to lead America to the moon. The initial into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975. They spent the 1960s in the forefront of NASA’s effort to overcome space, and Moon Shot is definitely their inside accounts of what many contact the twentieth century’s best feat-landing humans on another world.

Collaborating with NBC’s veteran space reporter Jay Barbree, Shepard and Slayton narrate in gripping detail the storyplot of America’s space exploration from the time of Shepard’s first flight until he and eleven others got walked for the moon.