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Loading... On the Moon: The Apollo Journals (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)by Grant Heiken
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This book explains how the Apollo crews learned to work on the lunar surface. Its lively and informative text draws heavily on transcripts and photographs to illustrate points. It puts the reader on the lunar surface with the astronauts, sharing their observations, excitement, and frustrations. The book describes the challenging yet exhilarating lunar environment facing the Apollo astronauts, and reveals their courageous, sometimes creative and occasionally humorous adaptation to the field conditions on another planet. Recent interviews with the astronauts are included in which they recall their thoughts after more than 25 years of reflection. No library descriptions found. |
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Although it has the requisite number of dumb Springer typos, this is really good stuff. The early missions are fairly perfunctory, but that's mainly because the EVAs themselves were more perfunctory early on -- important and of course historic as they were. And therefore the book really kicks into gear once you hit Apollo 14, with the long (and frustrating) climb to Cone Crater. The later, "J" missions, with the Lunar Rover, are especially exciting.
If you were too young to see any of this live, this is an especially good way to get a flavor of what went on. And if you remember watching some of this, it's an enjoyable way to relive some of it. (