Full name: Moondust: In Search Of The Men Who Fell To Earth

Author: Andrew Smith Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Science, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780786285303 0007155417 0786285303

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. Similar books: Moon Shot by Alan Shepard A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin Too Far From Home by Chris Jones Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins We Reach the Moon by John Noble Wilford Failure Is Not an Option by Gene Kranz Deke! by Donald K. Slayton For All Mankind by Harry Hurt Return to Earth by Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. Thirteen by Henry S. F. Cooper Jr. The Last Man on the Moon by Eugene Cernan Chariots for Apollo by Joshua Stoff Genesis by Robert Zimmerman Look to the Stars by Buzz Aldrin The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel Rocket Men by Robert Kurson Genius by James Gleick Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky