Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight

Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight

Cover Art for 9780374537913, Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
ISBN: 9780374212452
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: 4 June, 2019
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Links Pan Macmillan
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On July 20, 1969, something extraordinary happened, something civilizations had dreamed of for centuries: humans walked on the moon. Jonathan Fetter-Vorm's Moonbound is the story behind those first steps. It begins with the tense, suspense-filled descent of the spidery Lunar Module, which transported Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the surface of the moon; the narrative offers a close-up view of the action. Then the story splits to an examination of the history of man's fascination with space--from the earliest observers of the moon to the clear-eyed descriptions recorded by such visionaries as Galileo--and continues into the modern era, from Nazi atrocities and Soviet intrigues to square-jawed astronauts and a revolving cast of space-age dreamers. The narrative returns to July 20, 1969, the moment when our heroes made their historic moon walk, and finally moves on to the Space Shuttle program, the cosmic ambitions of deep-space probes, and the aspirations of companies like SpaceX.The story of space has always been about the conflict of imagination versus reality, of dreams versus politics. With a foreword by Michael Collins and publishing in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landing, Moonbound revisits this classic story in a new way, as a graphic history.

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