A Man on the Moon, Volume 1Here are the stories of a unique handful of men who have been to the farthest edge of human experience. For the first time, we learn what the men inside the space suits truly felt. Through them we can look back and understand the achievement that began on the almost mythic July night when, as Chaikin writes in his preface, "we touched the face of another world, and became a people without limits." |
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