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“Andrew Chaikin writes about all the difficulty of trying to invent all of this stuff at that time. He’s a brilliant writer and journalist. He took the time, back in the early 1990s, to go around and interview as many of the key players—including the astronauts themselves—who turned this dream into a reality. That, to me, is what makes A Man on the Moon the really definitive biography of Apollo, because many of those people, sadly, have died now. He has this ultimate record of what it was all about and what it meant to those that did it.” Read more...
Christopher Riley, Film Director
“It’s a series of interviews with all the astronauts that have been to the moon…..Chaikin interviewed them and brings back the excitement of the Apollo programme. But one of the interesting things about it is how boring all the astronauts are. I mean they actually sent the most boring people to the most boring locations on the moon. And they did that on purpose. Boring people because they would react in predictable ways – unimaginative fighter pilots who would do the right thing in dangerous circumstances.” Read more...
Marcus Chown, Science Writer
“Man on the Moon is a fantastic book. I had so many people recommend it to me by the time I met and became friends with the author, Andy Chaikin. So I decided, I’ve got to sit down and read this book. The thing is, it’s huge – almost 700 pages. But I could not put it down when I started reading it. Andy just tells such a good story. It’s a history of the Apollo missions, telling why we went to the moon, what happened when we got there, and why we stopped going after Apollo 17.” Read more...
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Philip Plait, Physicist
