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{{short description|Book by Alan Shepard}}
{{Other uses|Moonshot (disambiguation){{!}}Moonshot}}
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| authors          = [[Alan Shepard]], [[Deke Slayton]], [[Jay Barbree]], and Howard Benedict
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| country          = United States
| language         = English
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| subject          = [[Autobiography]]
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| publisher        = [[Turner Publishing]]
| pub_date         = 1994
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| pages            = 383
| isbn =  1-878685-54-6
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| dewey            = 629.454
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'''''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.<ref name= "wewon">{{cite news |last=Roland |first=Alex |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/17/books/how-we-won-the-moon.html |title=How We Won The Moon |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 17, 1994 |access-date=September 9, 2020}}</ref> [[Astronaut]] [[Deke Slayton|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.

==Miniseries==
The book was turned into a four part television [[documentary]] [[miniseries]] that aired on [[TBS (American TV channel)|TBS]] in the United States in [[1994 in television|1994]].<ref name= "adventure">{{cite news |last=Koehler |first=Robert |url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-07-11-ca-14440-story.html |title=TV REVIEW : 'Moon Shot' Details Apollo Adventure |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=July 11, 1994 |access-date=September 9, 2020}}</ref> The miniseries was narrated by [[Barry Corbin]] (as Slayton) and featured interviews with several American astronauts as well as a few Russian cosmonauts.<ref name= "glory">{{cite news |last=Winfrey |first=Lee |url= https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1994-07-11-1994192100-story.html |title='Moon' relives glory, gaffes of space race |work=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |date=July 11, 1994 |access-date=September 9, 2020}}</ref> Slayton died before the miniseries completed production in 1993 and the miniseries is dedicated to his memory.
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*[https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/a14.clsout2.html#1350926 ''Apollo Lunar Surface Journal'' Chaikin comments on faked book photo]
*[http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/apollo.html James Scotti comments on ''Moon Shot'']
*[https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/frame.html ''Apollo Lunar Surface Journal'']
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