| Moon Shot | |
| Authors: | Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, and Howard Benedict |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Autobiography |
| Publisher: | Turner Publishing |
| Pub Date: | 1994 |
| Pages: | 383 |
| Isbn: | 1-878685-54-6 |
| Dewey: | 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.