This book tells the story of how NASA transformed Florida's East Coast from an economy based on agriculture and tourism to one of the nation's most influential centers of technology.

William
Barnaby Faherty (1914‒2011) was professor emeritus of history at St. Louis
University and director of the Museum of the Western Jesuit Missions in
Hazelwood, Missouri. He is coauthor of Gateway to the Moon: Building the
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex and Moon Launch! A History of the
Saturn-Apollo Launch Operations.