Publisher Description
“Celebrates a bold era when voyaging beyond the Earth was deemed crucial to national security and pride.” –The Wall Street Journal Restoring the drama, majesty, and sheer improbability of an American triumph, this is award-winning historian Craig Nelson’s definitive and thrilling story of man’s first trip to the moon. At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket launched in the presence of more than a million spectators who had gathered to witness a truly historic event. Through interviews, 23,000 pages of NASA oral histories, and declassified CIA documents on the space race, Rocket Men presents a vivid narrative of the moon mission, taking readers on the journey to one of the last frontiers of the human imagination.
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“Absolutely terrific. Revolving around the July 20 1969 moonwalk, but also includes the history of all that came before the moonwalk–all that went into the achievement–and also what happened to the astronauts and their families following the moonwalk. The details of the trip are still fascinating….the discomforts they endured, the incredible hours they spent on the moon, the engineering genius and a few flaws, the profoundly TENUOUS aspects ……so many many things could have gone wrong, fatally so, but somehow didn’t. It’s so great to read about this 40 years on…..he brings it to life and makes it all relevant.”
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Jean (4 out of 5 stars)
