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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts https://www.amazon.com/dp/014311235X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_8NWuDbYZJJT2W

The author interviewed every single astronaut who went to the moon in the 90s when they were still alive and compiled basically the “definitive” history of the Apollo program. Just the sheer amount of effort put into the program is reflected here and the astronauts different personalities shine through.

A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin would be an amazing choice. It's a historical recount yet it tells the story and the drama of the Apollo Program. I'd highly recommend it.

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Moon-Voyages-Apollo-Astronauts/dp/014311235X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470525433&sr=1-1&keywords=Andrew+Chaikin

A Man on the Moon - Andrew Chalkin. - ISBN: 0-670-81446-6

http://www.amazon.com/Man-Moon-Voyages-Apollo-Astronauts/dp/014311235X

This is the end game here.

As far as I know, Chaikin is the only person to have written a book and interviewed all dozen people who landed on the moon and the eighteen who didn't.

I rate this Seven stars! (out of five)

From what I read of the astronauts' own accounts of being on the moon, he barely had time to look at the picture on the ground, and take the photo, before he had to move on. Not likely he buried it.

Source: maybe this (it's been years since I read it)

http://www.amazon.com/Man-Moon-Voyages-Apollo-Astronauts/dp/014311235X

I highly recommend this book to anyone who's interested in the Apollo program.

From the horse's mouth: > "It is like an elevator slowly lifting off. It just kept shaking at the same frequency throughout the whole S-IC [first stage] burn. You felt yourself going faster and faster and faster. I had the feeling it was a runaway freight train on a crooked track, swaying from side to side. That was all the way through the first stage." > > —Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 >

From Andy Chaikin's <u>A Man on the Moon</u>:

> At T minus 3 seconds there came a distant rumbling, like thunder on the horizon, that swelled into a roar. Finally, in the midst of the heightening commotion came a sudden, mild jolt, and Borman's crew heard Proffitt cry "Liftoff!" > > Borman glanced at the mission clock on the instrument panel. "Liftoff," he called, his voice charged with adrenaline. "The clock is running." The Saturn ascended, seemingly wracked by spasms of uncertainty, steering nervously past the launch tower, its engines correcting and recorrecting in quick, spasmodic jerks. Up in the command module these corrections translated into sudden, jarring motions that threw the men from side to side against their harnesses. No simulation had even hinted at the violence of this ride. In the post-flight debriefing Anders would only say that he was "impressed" by the Saturn's "very positive control," but in reality, he felt as if he were helpless prey in the mouth of a giant, angry dog. After all those simulations—if the first 10 seconds were this different, what would the rest of the flight be like? > > Long seconds passed in thunder while the rocket climbed its own length and still higher. Borman's crew barely heard Proffitt shout, "Tower clear!" The danger of collision with the launch tower past, they kept climbing. Now the rocket turned and headed onto its programmed flight path. "Roll and pitch program!" called Borman, his voice shaking with the vibrations of the ride. Meanwhile, the Cape launch center yielded command to mission control in Houston, where Mike Collins was serving as Capcom. If the booster suddenly went berserk and mission control ordered an abort, it would be Collins who would relay the command, but inside Apollo 8 the Saturn's roar was so loud that Borman's crew would not have heard him. And they could no longer hear each other; they were no longer a crew, but three passengers riding in a fury of sound.

The day before they lifted off on their circumlunar flight to become the first humans to fly to the moon, the Apollo 8 crew was visited by Charles Lindbergh, who pointed out the short amount of time that had passed between his transatlantic crossing and the flight to the moon:

> Charles Lindbergh, one of the most enigmatic figures of the twentieth century, emerged from his retreat to visit Borman, Lovell, and Anders in the crew quarters. Forty-one years after flying solo across the Atlantic, Lindbergh appeared tall, tanned, and surprisingly fit for his sixty-six years. Accompanied by his wife, Anne, herself an accomplished pilot and author, Lindbergh arrived to have lunch with three fellow fliers about to navigate an ocean far more vast and untraveled. > > ... > > Gathered around the table with Lindbergh and his wife, Borman's crew and their backups shared questions, recollections, and humor. They were fascinated by his accounts of meetings with Robert Goddard, whose experiments with liquid-fueled rockets in the New Mexico desert had foretold the space age (and fired the imagination of a teenage Jim Lovell). Goddard had conceived of flights to the moon, Lindbergh said, but was daunted by the fantastic cost of the venture—he had mused, "it might cost a million dollars." With that, the room exploded in laughter. > > The great flier asked Borman's crew about the navigation system that would take them to the moon. Then he told the astronauts how before his own trip, he and a friend had gone to the library, found a globe, and measured, with a piece of string, the distance from New York to Paris; from that he had figured out how much fuel he would need for the flight. Lindbergh asked how much fuel the Saturn V rocket would consume during its climb into space; one of the astronauts did a quick calculation: 20 tons per second. Lindbergh smiled. "In the first second of your flight tomorrow," he said, "you'll burn ten times more fuel than I did all the way to Paris."

(Excerpted from Chaikin's A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts)

There are two really great books I love to recommend for folks who want to know more about Apollo!

The first is Chaikin's A Man on the Moon, which was the basis for much of the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. It is probably the most complete single-volume telling of the story of all the Apollo astronauts and the missions they flew. It is excellent.

The other is Cox & Murray's Apollo: Race to the Moon (it's out of print, but used copies are plentiful). Chaikin's book is about the astronauts, but Cox & Murray focus on the ground controllers and NASA itself, telling the stories of the people and machines and systems that made Apollo work.

I've had the opportunity through work to interview most of the surviving Apollo astronauts and many of the flight control teams, and all of them, without exception, have said that the Cox & Murray book is the only one that gets everything more or less right. If you only read one Apollo book, that's the one to get.

(Also, watch the miniseries! It's up on HBO Max and it's been remastered and it looks amazing.)

check out A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin

https://www.amazon.ca/Man-Moon-Voyages-Apollo-Astronauts/dp/014311235X

I need the following textbooks:

• Man On The Moon W/New Afterword Chaikin ISBN 9780143112358 https://www.amazon.ca/Man-Moon-Voyages-Apollo-Astronauts/dp/014311235X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=
• Gender Law & Justice Van Der Meulen ISBN 9781552668917 https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/gender-law-amp-justice
• Gender Race & Canadian Law Dowsett ISBN 9781552669181 https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/gender-race-amp-canadian-law
• Foundations 2Nd Ed Shea ISBN 9780131236318Edition 2 https://www.amazon.ca/Foundations-Critical-Thinking-Reading-Writing/dp/0131236318

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