A review by jfkaess
The Man Who Knew The Way to the Moon by Todd Zwillich

4.0

A completely unknown (to most of us) engineer who is almost completely responsible for the fact that we landed on the moon and came back safely before the end of the 60's and why we beat the Russians there. His idea of sending up a command module to circle the moon while having a lunar module to actually land on the moon and then rendezvous with the command module and return to earth was extremely controversial and and opposed by almost everyone else who instead wanted a single vehicle to land on the moon, blast off and return to earth. It would have weighed far too much and would take far too much fuel to be a workable solution for the 1960's and the Russians likely would have beaten us. This is a great story of the engineer who sacrificed his career to make it happen.