Reviews

"Every Moon-buff will love this book. And you don't have to know norite from troctolite to enjoy it immensely. Don Wilhelms has written a marvelous history of the most extraordinary exploration ever." --Astronomy"An absorbing personal account of the bright but brief flowering of lunar science in the 1960s and 1970s. . . . This is a genuine history of lunar geology, a thoroughly researched book. . . . A generation after Apollo 11, children play mindless games with toy computers more powerful than the machine that guided the Eagle to the Sea of Tranquility. In our age of technological trivia, let Wilhelms take you back to that wonderful time when a president had a vision, science had a purpose and men walked upon the Moon." --New Scientist"A fascinating tale of human endeavor, resourcefulness, error and the emergence of the truth." --Nature"Delightful and authoritative....Of particular interest are the chapters detailing how the Moon rocks returned to Earth provided the evidence needed to determine how the Moon's surface features were created, whether its interior is hot or cold, and how the Moon originated. As both a personal memoir and a general introduction to what science came out of Apollo, this book is highly recommended." --Library Journal"A clearly readable, largely accurate, and eminently human portrayal of the events and players that established our current understanding of the Moon's evolution." --Sky & Telescope"A magnificent work, it is scientifically rigorous yet clearly written in an anecdotal style and thus should attract a wide audience of general readers as well as scientists." --Science