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Moondust: In Search Of The Men Who Fell To Earth
by Andrew Smith
“When I review my travels among the astronauts, my mind's eye goes first to the Houston shopping mall where Alan Bean sat for hours after returning from space, just eating ice cream and watching the people swirl around him, enraptured by the simple yet miraculous fact that they were there and alive in that moment, and so was he.”
I love this kind of immersive journalism where the focus isn't just on pure statistics and recounting of events…but on the feelings and personalities involved.
I remember watching Apollo 13 and never realizing what the inside joke the astronauts were making about Guenter Wendt was and never bothered looking it up (call me lazy) until I read this book. Or the fact that Ed Mitchell had contributed to the Quantum Holography theory when just months ago I watched a Kurgezast video on the very same thing. It's the little things like that that kept me hooked. Just how complex and these moonwalkers were and just how little we know about them, especially the current generation, despite their arguably monumental contribution to the history of humankind and that besides being hailed as heroes they were also very very human.
And not to mention the various anecdotes and stories about people involved in the missions, the resilient wives of the moonwalkers, the spectators, the celebrity, the scandals, the inspiration, the conspiracy theorists, and the importance and decadence of the missions themselves were truly enlightening.
I love this kind of immersive journalism where the focus isn't just on pure statistics and recounting of events…but on the feelings and personalities involved.
I remember watching Apollo 13 and never realizing what the inside joke the astronauts were making about Guenter Wendt was and never bothered looking it up (call me lazy) until I read this book. Or the fact that Ed Mitchell had contributed to the Quantum Holography theory when just months ago I watched a Kurgezast video on the very same thing. It's the little things like that that kept me hooked. Just how complex and these moonwalkers were and just how little we know about them, especially the current generation, despite their arguably monumental contribution to the history of humankind and that besides being hailed as heroes they were also very very human.
And not to mention the various anecdotes and stories about people involved in the missions, the resilient wives of the moonwalkers, the spectators, the celebrity, the scandals, the inspiration, the conspiracy theorists, and the importance and decadence of the missions themselves were truly enlightening.