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adorará Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se gostará deste livro. This is an interesting approach to the Apollo Moon landings as Smith attempts to interview the nine surviving men who walked on the Moon in order to gain some understanding of what it was all about. Today is the fortieth anniversary of the first Moon landing, and this book has helped me find some perspective on all the material floating around in the ether about the space programme. I particularly liked how Andrew Smith mixed in his own recollections of his reactions to the space programme. There are flaws though, the book rambles across the events of the space race leaving the reader with no real sense of the continuity. But the real message of this book is that as much as we may want our heros to be perfect, ultimately they are a very human and each astronaut had a very different perspective and reaction to their experiences in space and on the Moon. I should add that despite all the hype around the Moon walkers, for me, the real heroes are the Command Module pilots, who stayed in space, spending 47 minutes of each 2 hour Moon orbit in complete isolation, 'a darkness and aloneness you could feel' and facing the prospect that the Lunar Module may not be able to free itself from the Moon's surface, as Michael Collins, the Command Module pilot for Apollo 11, says 'My secret terror for the last six months has been leaving them on the moon and returning to earth alone .. I am not going to commit suicide; I am coming home, forthwith, but I will be a marked man for life and I know it.' Smith is quite possibly the most insightful person ever to write about the Apollo program. This is a beautiful book about the nine surviving Moonwalking astronauts, plus a few of the Command Module pilots. I might have given it five stars were it not for the many minor historical errors, which a decent proofreading could have eliminated. Questo libro tratta delle storie dei 12 astronauti che andarono sulla Luna. Vengono riportati i loro pregi e i loro difetti, le loro avventure, e il tutto è condito con la giusta dose di ironia e umorismo. The first chapter on landing what was not much more than a tin can on the moon is spellbinding sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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The Apollo lunar missions of the 1960s and 1970s have been called the last optimistic acts of the twentieth century. Twelve astronauts made this greatest of all journeys and were indelibly marked by it, for better or for worse. Journalist Andrew Smith tracks down the nine surviving members of this elite group to find their answers to the question "Where do you go after you've been to the Moon?"
A thrilling blend of history, reportage, and memoir, Moondust rekindles the hopeful excitement of an incandescent hour in America's past and captures the bittersweet heroism of those who risked everything to hurl themselves out of the known world -- and who were never again quite able to accept its familiar bounds.
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"Sono uscito da Sturbucks e ho fissato la Luna, insolitamente grande, luminosa, opalescente, appesa sui passanti che si affrettavano a fare compere per i saldi. Mi sono reso conto che non l'avevo giardata, guardata davvero, per un po'. Ho provato a immaginarmi di fluttuare nello spazio verso di lei. Apollo valeva tutto quello sforzo e quella spesa? Se si fosse trattato della Luna, la risposta sarebbe no, ma non si trattava di lei, si trattava della Terra. La risposta è sì. La sola cosa che non riesco a vedere è una ragione per tornarci. A meno che non ci si possa portare tutti." (p. 376) (