The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space
by Eugene Cernan, Donald A. Davis
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Author: Donald A. Davis, Eugene CernanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-07-01
ISBN: 0312263511
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Book Review: A cynical attitude toward his fellow heroes
Summary: 3 Stars
Eugene Cernan's book offers us another look at the manned space flight programs of the 60' and 70's. His primary focus in the book was on the Gemini flights with special emphasis on his near disastrous space-walk during the Gemini 9 flight. Many, many pages were devoted to the details and trials of Apollo crew selection and training but the book skimped on actual flight information and aspects of his Apollo 17 moon mission. The real details of the Apollo 17 mission are what I expected from this book but did not receive. Cernan also was not squeamish at all about denigrating his fellow astronauts. Got the feeling that there were quite a few axes left over from those days to grind. Maybe so, but the cynical attitude toward his fellow heroes does not make a better book in my opinion. On a sadder note, the book does attempt to address the issue of the disintegration of Cernan's 1st marriage. Hopefully, Cernan now knows that marriage and family have to come first, even before a space career. It is a real shame that seemingly highly successful people like the astronauts just do not seem to want to realize this simple fact.
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