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Not because it's easy

Norwegian title: Fordi det er vanskelig

A story about setting goals – and creating peace
What can we achieve if we work together?
Looks at what the Apollo expedition can teach us about leadership, cooperation and communication

This is a unique story of courage, friendship, competition, defeat and seemingly impossible victories. It is a story about setting goals, and about creating peace – and about how people who work together can achieve the seemingly impossible.

In 1961, a human being traveled into space for the first time. Just a few years later, in 1969, two people landed on the surface of the moon. Both events were the result of an intense struggle and the competition between superpowers. Then the unexpected happened: In 1975, the arch-rivals the USA and the USSR met in space in an unprecedented demonstration of peaceful, interpersonal cooperation.

Henrik and Jenny Helene Syse tell the story of the Apollo missions and the conquest of space. The scientific and the philosophical, the concrete and the visionary, go hand in hand in one of the most exciting stories of all time. We meet famous persons such as Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell. But we also meet a large gallery of notable, but far less well-known, women and men who contributed to the fact that humans were able to leave their footprints on another celestial body.

«... impressively dense with facts about the US's space race.»DAGBLADET

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