American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race All Classics What resulted was nothing short Format:Paperback What resulted was nothing short of a revolution one that took young American pilots from the crucible of combat training in the California desert to the blistering skies of Vietnam Reveals how the British colonial government detained more than one million members of Kenya's largest ethnic minority in prisons and work camps where many met their deaths as a result of a British attempt to stop the Mau Mau uprising Gemini and Apollo projects American Moonshot is a portrait of the brilliant men and women who made this giant leap possible