A Man On the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts - Softcover

Chaikin, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140272011 ISBN 13: 9780140272017

Publisher: Penguin, 1998

Synopsis

A celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first moon landing offers an accessible history of the Apollo space program from its less-than-auspicious beginnings, through its greatest triumphs, to its untimely end. Reprint.

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Review:

Recounts in loving detail the standing Apollo epic . . . with verve and intelligence.
"The New York Times Book Review"
The power of A Man on the Moon truly astounded me. . . . I found myself transported, reminded of all that was wonderful about Apollo. I laughed and cried.
Dava Sobel, author of "Longitude" and "Galileos Daughter"
More inside stories, more details, recollections, and feelings of all the men who traveled to the moon than any other account of the Apollo program.
"The Christian Science Monitor"

aRecounts in loving detail the standing Apollo epic . . . with verve and intelligence.a
a"The New York Times Book Review"
aThe power of A Man on the Moon truly astounded me. . . . I found myself transported, reminded of all that was wonderful about Apollo. I laughed and cried.a
aDava Sobel, author of "Longitude" and "Galileoas Daughter"
aMore inside stories, more details, recollections, and feelings of all the men who traveled to the moon than any other account of the Apollo program.a
a"The Christian Science Monitor"

"Recounts in loving detail the standing Apollo epic . . . with verve and intelligence."
-The New York Times Book Review

"The power of A Man on the Moon truly astounded me. . . . I found myself transported, reminded of all that was wonderful about Apollo. I laughed and cried."
-Dava Sobel, author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter

"More inside stories, more details, recollections, and feelings of all the men who traveled to the moon than any other account of the Apollo program."
-The Christian Science Monitor

From the Back Cover:

'As they finished breakfast, a sudden darkness came around them, and for the first time in the flight the sky was full of stars, too many to count, each with a steady, gemlike brilliance. They had flown into the lunar shadow. Through the windows of the slowly turning spacecraft they looked out at the place where the sun had once been, and there was the moon: a huge, magnificent sphere bathed in the eerie blue light of earthshine, each crater rendered in ghostly detail.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0140272011
• ISBN 13: 9780140272017
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 704