Publication Date: 13/06/2019 ISBN: 9780241363157 Category:

A Man on the Moon

Andrew Chaikin

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date: 13/06/2019 ISBN: 9780241363157 Category:
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‘IMPRESSIVE AND ILLUMINATING’ TOM HANKS

This is the definitive account of the heroic Apollo programme.

When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their ‘giant leap for mankind’ across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600 million people on Earth 240,000 miles away.

Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with the astronauts and mission personnel, this is the story of the twentieth century’s greatest human achievement, minute-by-minute, through the eyes of those who were there.

From the tragedy of the fire in Apollo 1 during a simulated launch, Apollo 8’s bold pioneering flight around the moon, through to the euphoria of the first moonwalk, and to the discoveries made by the first scientist on the moon aboard Apollo 17, this book covers it all.

‘An extraordinary book . . . Space, with its limitless boundaries, has the power to inspire, to change lives, to make the impossible happen. Chaikin’s superb book demonstrates how’ Sunday Times

‘A superb account . . . Apollo may be the only achievement by which our age is remembered a thousand years from now’ Arthur C. Clarke

‘The authoritative masterpiece’ Los Angeles Times

Publisher Review

Impressive and illuminating -- Tom Hanks A superb account . . . Apollo may be the only achievement by which our age is remembered a thousand years from now -- Arthur C. Clarke An extraordinary book . . . Space, with its limitless boundaries, has the power to inspire, to change lives, to make the impossible happen. Chaikin's superb book demonstrates how * Sunday Times *

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