The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon by Todd Zwillich

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/91110 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon Author: Todd Zwillich Narrator: Todd Zwillich, Angelo Di Loreto Format: mp3 Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins Release date: 07-04-19 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 18,855 ratings Genres: Science & Technology Publisher's Summary: Without John C. Houbolt, a mid-level engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon. Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly advocated for a single, huge spacecraft to travel to the moon, land, and return to Earth. It's the scenario used in 1950s cartoons and horror movies about traveling to outer space. Houbolt had another idea: Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. LOR would link two spacecraft in orbit while the crafts were travelling at 3,600 miles an hour around the moon. His plan was ridiculed and considered unthinkable.