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[i]Right now, as I listen to this, I feel an enormous sense of frustration, just like I did then. It was terribly, terribly frustrating; coming up over that ridge that we were going up, and thinking, finally, that was it; and it wasn't - suddenly recognizing that, really, you just don't know where the hell you are. You know you're close. You can't be very far away. You know you got to quit and go back. It was probably one of the most frustrating periods I've ever experienced. There's no feeling of being lost. I mean, the LM is there; we can get back to the LM. It's not reaching and looking down into that bloody crater. It's terribly frustrating.[/i]
[i]If we'd gotten to the point where we'd been willing to do away with the rest of the traverse (that is, do their work at the Cone rim and then proceed directly back to the LM without stopping), we could have made the rim all right. But I personally wasn't willing to do that. I felt that gathering more samples was the better of the two choices.[/i]
[i]What none of the reviews so far have mentioned is that this is essentially a book aimed at children. That should be obvious from Reynolds' previous books, all of which have been Star Wars books with lots of illustrations and two of which are "pocket" books less than 30 pages long... There are also errors that indicate that Reynolds got most of his information from other books and not original research -- and that he did not get anyone to fact-check his work. Some of the mistakes are not merely minor errors, but serious distortions of what happened. Take, for instance, the claim that it was a Disney space film that led President Eisenhower to start the scientific satellite program (pgs. 30-33). There is absolutely no evidence that Eisenhower even watched that program or requested a copy for the White House... There are numerous other mistakes and omissions, but one gets the sense that the author was not about to let the facts get in the way of a good story.[/i]
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