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A review by jabbr5
Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins
3.0
Collins was a gifted writer. He was able to mix the technical with the human facts about being an astronaut on Apollo 11, which went to the moon. As a child, I remember watching every bit of this trip to space from liftoff to splashdown. It was very interesting reading the behind the scenes stories of his training, his flight on Gemini 10, his solo time while Armstrong and Aldrin were on the surface of the moon and his life after NASA.
What I didn't care for was his chauvinistic comments about women that were sprinkled throughout the book. Granted this book was written in 1974, way before the MeToo movement. He did say though that "women in space would cause a problem." Fortunately NASA didn't share that sentiment. But he wrote about the pinup picture that was placed in his room in crew quarters while quarantined before the flight. And he mentioned "ogling the honeys" from behind the glass of the quarantine unit they occupied after splashdown. There were other comments that I just found offensive.
What I didn't care for was his chauvinistic comments about women that were sprinkled throughout the book. Granted this book was written in 1974, way before the MeToo movement. He did say though that "women in space would cause a problem." Fortunately NASA didn't share that sentiment. But he wrote about the pinup picture that was placed in his room in crew quarters while quarantined before the flight. And he mentioned "ogling the honeys" from behind the glass of the quarantine unit they occupied after splashdown. There were other comments that I just found offensive.