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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts Andrew L. Chaikin
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. Thus, when Apollo 11 landed in July 1969, “the surface of the moon was not an unknown place,” Andrew Chaikin wrote in “A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts” (Viking/1994). But a fire breaks out in the pressurized capsule of Apollo 1, resulting in the deaths of three beloved astronauts. Penguin Paperback : 07 May 2009. For spellbound audiences around the world it was an extraordinary and optimistic voyage of discovery Enlarge. The Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle lifts off 16 July 1969 with astronauts Neil A. All Mankind) and the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon) I had never owned a book dedicated to the Apollo Program until I bought Andrew Chaikin's A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts. It doesn't mean that I have to respect everything they say. The duo teamed again as the Project Apollo, the nation's effort to land a man on the Moon, beckoned, but the January 1967 fire which took the lives of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee set the schedule back by almost two years. Young returned from the five-hour Gemini 3 mission—the voyage on which he famously offered Grissom a corned-beef sandwich—with an eagerness to climb aboard the next available rocket. Cover of A Man on the Moon Everyone is familiar with how Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the commander and Lunar Module pilot of Apollo 11, became the first people to land on the Moon as Mike Collins orbited in the Command Module far above. For the United States, the mission was a Cold War maneuver, a bid to fulfil the vow made by President John F. Landing the Eagle – The Apollo program is set to achieve the ultimate prize of the Space Race, landing men on the moon. The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon: A Novel. Kennedy that NASA could overtake the pioneering Russian space program and put a man on the moon. The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts. To our collective shame, the events of the The book is subtitled “The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts”, and the astronauts themselves are the focus of Chaikin's attention. I have the highest respect for all of the Apollo astronauts, for their achievements back then. Jacket image for A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin » View larger jacket image.