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Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

Autor Andrew Smith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 iun 2019
A revised and updated edition of the classic work to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing'It left me spellbound ... belongs to the same tradition as Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff' Sunday Times'Fascinating. A wonderful book' David BowieSpellbinding ... A wonderful collective biography written with deftness, compassion and humour' Observer________________________The Apollo Moon Programme has been called the last optimistic act of the twentieth century. In Moondust, Andrew Smith set out to find and interview the nine remaining Moonwalkers in order to learn how their lives, and ours, were irrevocably changed by this surreal expedition. On the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing, Smith's powerful and gripping account of the most courageous adventure of the last century is re-released with a new chapter, detailing his fascinating interactions with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Edgar Mitchell and Alan Bean in the years since publication. With thought-provoking meditations on the dramatic recent upswing in cosmic exploration, including astonishing encounters with the would-be astronaut-settlers of the Mars One project and the scientists leading the search for life in our solar system, this is an indispensable update to the definitive classic.________________________'Fascinating and disturbing. We know what happened inside the Apollo spacecraft, but what went on inside the astronauts' minds? Did any of them really recover from their strange journey? Extremely thought-provoking' J.G. Ballard
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781526611574
ISBN-10: 1526611570
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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A revised and updated edition of the bestselling classic to mark the 50th anniversary of man's first landing on the moon. New material covers recent events and developments in cosmic exploration, and includes interviews with Elon Musk and the would-be astronaut-settlers of the Dutch-based MarsOne project

Notă biografică

Andrew Smith is an author, broadcaster, screenwriter and journalist. He is writer and presenter of the 60-minute BBC documentaries Being Neil Armstrong and To Kill a Mockingbird at 50 and author of Moondust, Totally Wired: The Rise and Fall of Josh Harris and the Great Dotcom Swindle and Adventures in Coderland (coming 2020). He was born in New York, spent most of his adult life working in London and now lives in Fairfax, California with his wife Jan.

Recenzii

Fascinating and disturbing. We know what happened inside the Apollo spacecraft, but what went on inside the astronauts' minds? Did any of them really recover from their strange journey? Extremely thought-provoking
Spellbinding ... A wonderful collective biography written with deftness, compassion and humour
Smith's mix of reporting and meditation is highly entertaining, and this superb book is a fitting tribute to a unique band of twentieth-century heroes
A moving and thorough account of America's last great act of optimism
It left me spellbound ... Belongs to the same tradition as Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff
Utterly gripping ... Smith is both sympathetic and bracingly unsentimental. But he also does an excellent job at rekindling the sheer fascination of that period ... Intriguing, startling, funny, and yet also somehow profoundly moving

Textul de pe ultima copertă

In time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and now updated with a new Afterword comes author, broadcaster, and journalist Andrew Smith’s Moondust, a panoramic telling of the remarkable story of twelve astronauts who peered into the void at the edge of deep space.
The Apollo lunar missions of the 1960s and 1970s have been called the last optimistic acts of the twentieth century. Twelve astronauts made this greatest of all journeys and were indelibly marked by it, for better or worse. With awe and humor Smith tracks down the nine surviving members of this elite group to find their answers to the question, “Where do you go after you’ve been to the moon?”
A thrilling blend of history, reportage, and memoir, including revelatory interviews, Moondust rekindles the hopeful excitement of an incandescent hour in America’s past when anything seemed possible as it captures the bittersweet heroism of those who risked everything to rocket themselves out of the known world—and who were never again quite able to accept its familiar bounds.