Moondust

Smith, Andrew

The Apollo Moon landings have been called the last loja optimistic act of the twentieth preco century. Twelve astronauts smith, andrew made this greatest loja of all journeys, and Moondust all were indelibly marked by it. Journalist Smith reveals the stories of the nine still venda living men caught between the escritor gravitational pull of smith, andrew the Moon and venda the Earth´s collective dreaming: Moondust we relive the flashbulbs, the first shocking glimpse of Earth from space, the sense of preco euphoria and awe. This was submarino the first global smith, andrew media event, and preco the astronauts were its Moondust superstars. They had been schooled by NASA for deep space but were completely unprepared for escritor fame. Marriages crumbled under the autor strain. The wild smith, andrew and happy sixties escritor gave way to the Moondust cynicism and self-doubt of the seventies, and the Moonwalkers faced their greatest challenge: how to submarino find meaning in life when barato the biggest adventure smith, andrew you could possibly submarino have was a memory.--From Moondust publisher description.A portrait of the twelve men who journeyed to the moon draws on interviews autor with the nine surviving astronauts premiado who walked on smith, andrew the moon to autor determine how their lives Moondust had been transformed by the experience and its aftermath.

Editora: Fourth Estate
ISBN: 0007155417
Número de páginas: 372
Acabamento: 
HARDCOVER
Local de Publicação: barato United States