Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth (Paperback)

from ABVR

This is really two books: A collective where-are-they-now biography of the nine (out of twelve) surviving moonwalkers, and Smith's reflections on what the space program meant to America then and what it means now. The two are intertwined, as Smith uses his interviews with the astronauts as a spri...

from john257hopper

An absorbing read, though at times his journalist's style was a little annoying as he struggled to find sometimes over-complicated psychological explanations for some of the Moonwalkers' reticence, when it could more easily be explained as deriving from having suffered previously at the media's h...

from john257hopper

An absorbing read, though at times his journalist's style was a little annoying as he struggled to find sometimes over-complicated psychological explanations for some of the Moonwalkers' reticence, when it could more easily be explained as deriving from having suffered previously at the media's h...

from davidroche

The first chapter on landing what was not much more than a tin can on the moon is spellbinding

from Arseylum

The Richard & Judy sticker on the front cover should have indicated this was an easy book. However, it was anything but. The prose is simple enough, but the story turns out to be a lot more boring than it should, as do the astronauts themselves. It was disappointing to note than almost all of the...