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Seeing as it’s a hot topic at the moment what are your recommended moon books.
The collection of photos from Apollo’s VII - XVII is a brilliant book and I’m just tucking in the The Moon A History for the Future. Promising so far.
Oh and a good moon atlas is fun. Particularly if like me you’re trying to tick off the Lunar 100.
It's Shuttle-era rather than Apollo-era, but I really enjoyed Riding Rockets.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Riding-Rockets-Outrageous-Shuttle-Astronaut/dp/0743276833
2 from me:
Lost Moon by Jim Lovell
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0395670292/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_lylgDbT1NW81 F">Linky
And Into the Black by Roland White about the development, first flight and then demise of the Shuttle:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0552160229/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_cAlgDbB43F68 N">Linky
Is it a hot topic?
Andrew Smith - Moondust. Interviews with all the people who bin there done that.
I also liked Moondust, despite the fact that it’s not critically liked.
I started Moondust and thought 'I'm not gonna like this", then it slowly turned awesome. 🙂
Again, not directly moon related but this is a fantastic autobiography...
Rocket Boys, by Homer H Hickam.
Soz about the autobiographically long link!
Another not quite a moon book, but I enjoyed "Starman", the biography of Gagarin (and the early Soviet space programme):
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1767720.Starman
"Failure is not an option" is a great biography from Mission Control...
Moon Shot by Al Shepard and Deke Slayton. Although Shepard does come across as a bit of an arse.
“Failure is not an option” is a great biography from Mission Control…
+1.
Chaikin's A Man on the Moon is definitive as far as Apollo is concerned.
Rocket Boys, by Homer H Hickam
There's also a movie based on the autobiography... October Sky (which is an anagram of Rocket Boys)
(kind of explains my nick on here too)
There’s also a movie based on the autobiography… October Sky (which is an anagram of Rocket Boys)
Thanks!
*goes a Googling*
Chaikin +1