First on the Moon: A Voyage With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.

Excellent description of both the lunar voyage and American life circa 1969.

I watched the lunar landing from a tiny TV set imported into my New Hampshire sleepaway camp during July 1969. We couldn't really see the moon that night; like much of that "summer" it was pouring rain.

The book helped me fill in what I missed by not reading daily papers while away at camp. It put me back into history.

Excellent description of both the lunar voyage and American life circa 1969?

Excellent description of both the lunar voyage and American life circa 1969?

Excellent description of both the lunar voyage and American life circa 1969?

The Apollo 11 astronauts describe their unparalleled space venture.

FROM AMAZON: From the heroes' mouths but in a quite impersonal third person. The narrative shuttles back and forth from in-flight transmissions to home-fire gatherings to space program retrospectives to scientific elucidations to homey biographical flashbacks to pre-flight preparations to Cape Kennedy hubbub to historical huzzas. But with all the attendant trivia and trappings, it certainly is the stuff of history, and Arthur C. Clarke provides a fascinating epilogue on the future of space travel.

Forty years ago, the first person from this planet set foot on Earth's satellite, the Moon. He was Neil Alden Armstrong and with Buzz Aldrin, he formed the crew of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle (Michael Collins remained in orbit about the Moon aboard Command Module Columbia). They were followed by a further six missions, one of which - Apollo 13 - did not make it to the lunar surface. On 14th December 1972, Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt climbed back into the Apollo 17 LM Challenger and shortly afterwards it departed. No one has visited the Moon since.

First on the Moon by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins is the definitive account of the first mission to land on the Moon. It was published immediately after the event, show more and was written with the assistance of Gene Farmer and Dora Jane 'Dodie' Hamblin, two of the Life journalists who had exclusive access to the astronauts and their families.

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