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Topic: Moondust (Andrew Smith)
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Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2272
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 07-03-2008 03:39 PM
   
I felt the book was a good read personally. Okay, maybe it wasn't a history of Apollo text, but at the same time it wasn't trying to be. To me, it best serves as something of a conduit to the character of the astronauts interviewed for it and you get a more whole picture of them as people, rather then as the larger then life characters that we still look up to. And it also provides insight into how these people (and the Apollo program) are still perceived by the world at large. |
robsouth
Member Posts: 769
From: West Midlands, UK
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 07-05-2008 04:41 PM
It's an interesting book that I enjoyed reading but when it came to his research about how Shepard got command of Apollo 14 I think all he did was watch the movie 'Apollo 13'.He writes, "Mitchell was originally scheduled to fly Apollo 13, but a rogue infection in commander Alan Shepard's ear caused the three-man crew to slip a place". |
AndrewLiptak
New Member Posts: 6
From: USA
Registered: Jul 2008
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posted 07-10-2008 10:03 AM
I picked up this book on a whim when I studied in England a couple years ago and finished it on a flight - I was pretty impressed with the approach to the book - just how the astronauts were affected by their collective experience. |
albatron
Member Posts: 2732
From: Stuart, Florida
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 07-10-2008 06:04 PM
Having just finished it I must say I was greatly disappointed. The gratuitous use of profanity (one word in particular) was used to an extreme and truly with no correlation to the subject matter. Mind you I'm certainly no prude, but it had no bearing and seemed to be used, well, gratuitously (please excuse the spelling). Also the reversion to the 60's quite frequently. Almost read like flashbakcs to a bad acid trip and had little to do with the subject matter. To me it became distracting. For example, Country Joe and the Fish's "cheer" was totally irrelevant even hough I am from the Woodstock era and was 16 when Apollo 11 launched. While the point of the story was about the surviving 9 moonwalkers, the only real CMP he spent any time with and wrote about was Dick Gordon. While Dick is one of my favorites (and everyones), the other guys had input as well. Yet little was even mentioned about them. Errors did abound; you can count 3 guys twice, but the fact remains only 24 PEOPLE made the voyage. Also, the X-15 pilots did NOT beat the Mercury guys into space. I can go on, but the point is made. A noble effort, great idea but I feel it fell short. I also think he missed the boat in his opines of some of these guys too. But hey, that's just me. |
cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 10-02-2018 09:38 AM
Paperback reprint edition due June 25, 2019. In time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing comes this edition of journalist Andrew Smith's book, now updated with a new Afterword, that tells the fascinating story of twelve astronauts who ventured to space, and his interviews with nine of the surviving men. | |
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