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	• A Man on the Moon: One Giant Leap : Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the First Landing on the Moon, July ... Andrew Chaikin Time Life Education, 1999 average customer review:based on 118 reviews
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highly recommended

An Absolute Triumph

If you are not moved by this book you are either made of stone or are, very frankly, a Flat Earth cynic. This book is one of the triumphs of modern literary journalism. Andrew Chaikin has given us a treasure book for the ages, to replace other worthy volumes that are no longer in print or did not go far enough in what they told us. You don't have to be a technophile to enjoy this book, as technology takes a back seat to the human story provided by the Astronauts themselves. Read some of the other fine customer reviews here to see how highly people value this great work. And you know what else? Apollos 18 and 19 should NOT have been cancelled. If any crews deserved their missions, Dick Gordon and Fred Haise's sure did. Spacecraft and boosters lie around redundant, though surely not unappreciated. WHEN WILL PEOPLE RETURN TO THE MOON? The question should be asked more pointedly now than ever. Come on: LETS GO!

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A must-read for the Apollo buff...

Along with "Apollo...the Race to the Moon" by Murray/Cox, this is the essential read for the Apollo program. This one tells it from the astronauts perspective and does so richly and in much greater and readable detail than any other book previously written. Dave Scott (Apollo 15 commander) comes alive as the "all-business" leader of his mission...Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17 LEM pilot) as the un-wavering geologist/astronaut, finally getting his point across about the need for a geologist on the Moon... John Young (Apollo 16 commander) and his "Young-grams" concerning the real or imagined engineering problems with the vehicles, They're all here presented in human terms a they've never been. It's a long book (700 plus pages) but I promise that once you start, you'll have trouble putting it down.

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Loaded with info

Although the Apollo 11 landing happened eight years before I was born, Chaikin's book makes me feel like I was glued to the television watching the news reports during every Apollo mission. It delivers lots of interesting details without becoming too ponderous. It frames the goals of the Apollo mission in terms of the political climate of the time. It gets the more interesting material straight from the horses mouth: the astronauts themselves, giving Chaikin's work solid credibility. For anyone who has ever been interested in what space travel is like, or for anyone who ever doubted the courage of astronauts, read this book.

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A Fast Read for 700 pages

I like this book a lot. I can't be quite as effusive as other reviewers because I liked the Tom Hanks HBO series better. This book doesn't go into as much detail of the sciencc, e.g. why the lunar rendezvous proposal won out. On the other hand, Chaikin didn't have the license to make up conversations. What you get here are the facts. A lot of it was "touchy-feely" and I learned more about the spiritual lives of some of the astronauts that I would have passed on. I can't think of another book that focuses so tightly on Apollo so it is hard to compare to other books. I put this one just below the William Burrows book "This New Ocean" but only by a smidge. This book was originally written in 1994 and some of the references to where we are today (like the Space Station) are a bit dated.

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Just the finest Apollo book.

Nothing I say here probably hasn't been said before in other reviews. I originally read this book as a source for a research paper. Not until 2 years later when I read it again did I realizee how much of a wonderful book it was. I sometimes couldn't put it down and found myself staying up way to late to be reading. Chaikin gives many great insights and keeps the story moving at a great pace. Someplaces get slowed down my the gushing spiritual side of some of the missions, but as a whole the book will be over and you'll wish there was more to tell.

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