A Man on the Moon
by Andrew Chaikin
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Author: Andrew ChaikinForeword: Tom Hanks
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-04-01
ISBN: 0140272011
Number of pages: 688
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: A Fast Read for 700 pages
Summary: 4 Stars
I like this book a lot. I can't be quite as effusive as other reviewers because I liked the Tom Hanks HBO series better. This book doesn't go into as much detail of the sciencc, e.g. why the lunar rendezvous proposal won out. On the other hand, Chaikin didn't have the license to make up conversations. What you get here are the facts. A lot of it was "touchy-feely" and I learned more about the spiritual lives of some of the astronauts that I would have passed on. I can't think of another book that focuses so tightly on Apollo so it is hard to compare to other books. I put this one just below the William Burrows book "This New Ocean" but only by a smidge. This book was originally written in 1994 and some of the references to where we are today (like the Space Station) are a bit dated.
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