A review by miocyon
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon by Alan Shepard

3.0

I read this because it was assigned by a colleague of mine for a seminar he is teaching about the moon which I sat in on. I've never read "The Right Stuff" although the movie was a part of my childhood, and the Space Shuttle program always held a fascination for me. As such, I was hoping to enjoy this book more than I did. The writing feels very superficial, and felt like something I would have read in grade school. It was a little too glowing and rah-rah about the space program and the astronauts. It felt like a very 'male' book, probably mostly because the only women in it, albeit briefly, are some of the astronauts wives. If you want to get an idea about what the space program was like from men in it, then this is an OK introduction, although I wanted more depth and technical information.