posted 10-17-2018 08:50 AM               

Between December 1968 and December 1972, twenty-four men captured the imagination of the world as they voyaged to the moon. In For All Mankind, Harry Hurt III presents a dramatic, engrossing, and expansive account of those journeys. Based on extensive research and exclusive interviews with the Apollo astronauts,

For All Mankind remains one of the most comprehensive and revealing firsthand accounts of space travel ever assembled. In their own words, the astronauts share the sights, sounds, thoughts, fears, hopes, and dreams they experienced during their incredible voyages. In a compelling narrative structured as one trip to the moon, Harry Hurt recounts all the drama and danger of the lunar voyages, from the anxiety of the astronauts' prelaunch procedures through the euphoria of touchdown on the lunar surface.

Updated with a new introduction by the author for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, For All Mankind is both an extraordinary adventure story and an important historical document.

• Paperback: 416 pages
  
• Grove Press (July 16, 2019)
  
• ISBN-10: 0802147259
  
• ISBN-13: 978-0802147257

posted 10-17-2018 09:54 PM               

This book is the literary sibling of a full-length feature film of the same name produced and directed by Al Reinert, who conducted the principal interviews with the Apollo astronauts. The book is not the shooting script for the film, nor is the film a celluloid condensation of the book. Just as each represents a distinct art form, each is a self-contained work in its own right, but the two may be best enjoyed in tandem as complementary answers to the same question: what was it like for man to leave the earth and land on another planet?

posted 10-17-2018 10:20 PM               

The author owes an immeasurable debt to co-author Reinert for his inspiration and general editorial guidance, as well as for his fine interviews and research over the course of eight years.