Pre-Owned Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon (Audiobook) by Buzz Aldrin, Patrick Egan, Ken Abraham

from shelbycassie

I actually started reading this a couple years ago and just picked it up recently to finish. I like the information on his life and how he dealt with his demons of depression and alcoholism. Hearing that someone as "important" to our country struggles just like the rest of us was helpful. Sorry h...

from joeteo1

This was not at all the book I was expecting. I was anticipating a narrative of Buzz Aldrin's early life, military training and recruitment into the astronaut program that ultimately resulted in him being on the first lunar landing mission. The the first chapter starts in the final nerve racking ...

from ZoharLaor

For most of us, whether we want to admit it or not, the highlight of our lives, the event which we define ourselves, the successful summit to the Mt. Olympus of our existence, happened before we were 25. For an aerospace engineer with an inquisitive and fertile mind it seemed a disappointment tha...

from DarthDeverell

In Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon, Buzz Aldrin chronicles both his personal struggles and continued aerospace work following his historic Apollo 11 mission. He writes of the period following the moon landing, "With no mission or goal on which to focus, those words I'd...