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The real-life journey into the unknown

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Craig Nelson is the author of The First Heroes and Thomas Paine, which won the 2007 Henry Adams Prize for the year s best book on history and government. His writing has appeared in many publications and he has been profiled in Variety, Interview, Publishers Weekly and Time Out. He lives in Greenwich Village, New York.

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I was there, kneeling, unable to breathe, before a television screen, watching Armstrong step off Eagle onto the regolith. I read [Rocket Men] in the same mood of boyhood wonder. So should you - Sunday Times Anyone with an ounce of poetry in their soul would have to concede that reaching the moon really was a giant leap for mankind. For the sheer drama, majesty and improbability of it all, it s a story that will be told time and time again. But rarely as well as this - The Sunday Business Post'Spectacular' - Vanity Fair'With Nelson s impeccable research, his ability to tie the myriad strings of the space race into a coherent whole and the power of the story itself, Rocket Men should be at the top of your book list' - New Scientist Rocket Men is particularly good at unpicking the tangle of motives behind kennedy s decision to send a man to the moon ... A punchy, popular history ... gripping, geekily detailed accounts of what it was like to ride a Saturn V or walk on another planet are interspersed with an equally lively take on the cold war strategising behind the mission - Financial Times'Rocket Men is a masterful account of one of the most daring exploits in human civilisation.' - The Irish Examiner (Eire)'Craig Nelson tells the tale in a way that seizes the spirit of the age' - London Review of Books As good an introduction as any to mankind s greatest adventure - BBC History Magazine

I was there, kneeling, unable to breathe, before a television screen, watching Armstrong step off Eagle onto the regolith. I read [Rocket Men] in the same mood of boyhood wonder. So should you - Sunday Times Anyone with an ounce of poetry in their soul would have to concede that reaching the moon really was a giant leap for mankind. For the sheer drama, majesty and improbability of it all, it s a story that will be told time and time again. But rarely as well as this - The Sunday Business Post'Spectacular' - Vanity Fair'With Nelson s impeccable research, his ability to tie the myriad strings of the space race into a coherent whole and the power of the story itself, Rocket Men should be at the top of your book list' - New Scientist Rocket Men is particularly good at unpicking the tangle of motives behind kennedy s decision to send a man to the moon ... A punchy, popular history ... gripping, geekily detailed accounts of what it was like to ride a Saturn V or walk on another planet are interspersed with an equally lively take on the cold war strategising behind the mission - Financial Times'Rocket Men is a masterful account of one of the most daring exploits in human civilisation.' - The Irish Examiner (Eire)'Craig Nelson tells the tale in a way that seizes the spirit of the age' - London Review of Books As good an introduction as any to mankind s greatest adventure - BBC History Magazine

July marks the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. This exhaustively researched history by a history writer (The First Heros) reveals many little-known details about the mission and its astronauts. For example, a recurring problem for NASA was the strong, human-generated odors that permeated its space capsules. The book is also a collective biography of the mission's three astronauts-Neal Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins-and describes how the intensive press coverage affected their families. The mission changed their lives forever, but, later, the fame brought on problems like alcoholism and divorce. Nelson also devotes major sections to a discussion of the history of rocketry, human space flight, and the Space Race. He closes with a poignant, forward-looking analysis of human space exploration and Apollo 11's place in history. Verdict Sure to appeal to serious space history fans. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 3/15/09; out this month from Harmony is Aldrin's Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon.-Ed.]-Jeffrey Beall, Univ. of Colorado Lib., Denver Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.

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