Moon Shot

Authors	Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, and Howard Benedict
Language	English
Subject	Autobiography
Publisher	Turner Publishing
Publication date	1994
Publication place	United States
Pages	383
ISBN	1-878685-54-6
Dewey Decimal	629.454

Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon is a 1994 book written by Mercury Seven astronaut Alan Shepard, with NBC News correspondent Jay Barbree and Associated Press space writer Howard Benedict.^[1] Astronaut Donald K. "Deke" Slayton is also listed as an author, although he died before the project was completed and was an author in name only; astronaut Neil Armstrong wrote the introduction.

The book was turned into a four part television documentary miniseries that aired on TBS in the United States in 1994.^[2] The miniseries was narrated by Barry Corbin (as Slayton) and featured interviews with several American astronauts as well as a few Russian cosmonauts.^[3] Slayton died before the miniseries completed production in 1993 and the miniseries is dedicated to his memory.

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