A Man on the Moon, (Paperback)

from jfe16

Based on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with each of the moon voyagers, as well as those working behind the scenes, "A Man on the Moon" speaks to every aspect of the missions undertaken during the Apollo program. Unfolding from the tragic beginning with the Apollo 1 fire that claimed th...

from nandadevi

Others have said how good this book is. It is. It sits comfortably alongside Tracy Kidders ´Soul of a New Machine´, or Shelby Foote´s ´Civil War´. Chaikin comes to this task with a background in the business, and a role in science writing and science journalism. The astronauts and support crews a...

from Omnigeek

Chaikin's seminal work on the Apollo program was the basis for Tom Hanks' "From the Earth to the Moon" but it's so much more. Smoothly written, the book gives us insights that Hanks wasn't able to fit in to the mini-series including what some of the astronauts were thinking as these missions were...

from Gkarlives

This book was used as one source of material for the great HBO miniseries "From Earth to the Moon" produced by Tom Hanks. The book adds even more detail to the story than the series, such as, information about what happened to the astronauts after their missions were over. The accounts of the cha...

from john257hopper

A wonderful evocation of all aspects of the Apollo programme: the sense of achievement and purpose that animated the programme in the 1960s and early 1970s, before budget cuts and a narrower vision won out; the marvels of science and geology waiting to be discovered; the thrills and occasional te...