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It picks up where The Right Stuff left off. [Stu Roosa, Apollo 14, back cover]***In a 2007 afterword, Chaikin discusses how a lack of progress in human spaceflight has forced exploration-hungry observers to turn their interest to robotic probes. To be certain, the achievements of these remote-controlled explorers have been impressive and exciting to watch. As Chaikin wrote, two rovers were exploring Mars, Cassini had arrived at Saturn, and New Horizons was just beginning its journey to Pluto. But Chaikin is clear that only human spaceflight can inspire people and ignite their passions in the way Apollo did. [Apollo Review, the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever: two Americans, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, walked on the moon. After the horror of the Kennedy and King assassinations, amid the deepening quagmire of Vietnam, the moon landing brought the sixties to a triumphant end. But the upheavals of that decade have somehow eclipsed this “one giant leap” and the even bolder explorations that followed. Now Andrew Chaikin tells the story of the Apollo missions as never before: through the eyes of the astronauts who made those heroic voyages.A decade in the making, A

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Author

Andrew Chaikin

Publisher

Viking Children's Books

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780670814466

Category

history

Subjects

Engineering, Fiction, Science

Rating

4.44 / 5 (32 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14