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Norman Mailer. MoonFire. 50th Anniversary Edition (Hardcover)
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Norman Mailer. MoonFire. 50th Anniversary Edition (Hardcover)
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It has been called the single most historic event of the 20th
century: On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael
Collins met John F. Kennedy's call for a manned Moon landing by the
end of the 1960s. A decade of tests and training, a staff of
400,000 engineers and scientists, a budget of billions, and the
most powerful rocket ever launched all combined in an unprecedented
event watched by millions the world over. And no one captured the
men, the mood, and the machinery like Norman Mailer. One of the
greatest writers of the 20th century, Norman Mailer was hired by
LIFE magazine in 1969 to cover the Moon shot. He enhanced his
reportage in the brilliantly crafted book, Of a Fire on the Moon,
which is excerpted here. Equally adept at examining the science of
space travel and the psychology of the people involved-from Saturn
V rocket engineer Wernher von Braun to the crucial NASA support
staff to the three astronauts-Mailer provides provocative and
trenchant insights into this epoch-making event. Illustrating this
volume are hundreds of photographs and maps from the NASA vaults,
magazine archives, and private collections. These images document
the development of the agency and the mission, life inside the
command module and on the Moon's surface, and the world's jubilant
reaction to the landing. This 50-year anniversary edition includes
captions by leading Apollo 11 experts that explain the history and
science behind the images, citing the mission log, publications of
the day, and postflight astronaut interviews; while an evocative
introduction by Colum McCann celebrates Mailer's incomparable skill
at transforming "the science of space... the weight of history...
the breadth of mythology" into prose.
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