Moondust - In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

Zusatztext “Smith’s book succeeds…because he bungee-cords together so many intriguing digressions.” Informationen zum Autor Andrew Smith has worked as a broadcast commentator and an investigative feature writer for publications including The Face ! The Guardian! and the Sunday Times . He has also written and presented radio series and films for the BBC! including the acclaimed documentary Being Neil Armstrong . He lives with his wife! Jan! in the San Francisco Bay Area. Klappentext 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 for worse. Journalist Andrew 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! Moondust rekindles the hopeful excitement of an incandescent hour in America's past and captures the bittersweet heroism of those who risked everything to hurl themselves out of the known world -- and who were never again quite able to accept its familiar bounds. Zusammenfassung In time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing comes this edition of journalist Andrew Smith’s Moondust ! now updated with a new Afterword! that tells the fascinating story of twelve astronauts who ventured to space! and his interviews with nine of the surviving men. 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 for worse. Journalist Andrew 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! 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 hurl themselves out of the known world—and who were never again quite able to accept its familiar bounds. ...

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"Splendid!" Arthur C. Clarke, author 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Andrew Smith
• Verlag: Harper Perennial USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 08.08.2006
• EAN: 9780007155422
• ISBN: 978-0-00-715542-2
• Seiten: 384
• Abmessung: 136 mm x 203 mm x 24 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Sachbuch; Popular Culture, Astrophysics, space exploration, History of Art, History of Science, History of engineering and technology, General and world history, The Americas, Cosmology and the universe, Popular astronomy and space, Photography and photographs, Astronomy, space and time, Photography: subject-specific techniques and principles, HISTORY: WORLD, HISTORY: 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN, ART: Popular Culture, HISTORY: United States / 20th Century, SCIENCE: Space Science / Astronomy, PHOTOGRAPHY: History, HISTORY: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SCIENCE: History, PHOTOGRAPHY: Astrophotography *, HISTORY: Modern / 20th Century / General, The arts: general topics, History / 20th Century American