Craig Nelson is a former zoo employee, publishing VP and now an author who's works have appeared in Salon, The New England Review, Blender, and The New York Observer to name a few. Rocket Men is his sixth book. He lives in Greenwich Village.
'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'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 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 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'A fascinating and definitive history of the race to the moon' - Economist'Rocket Men is particularly good because it tells the story so coherently' - BBC Focus'Rocket Men is an excellent read' - The Daily Telegraph
'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'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 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 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'A fascinating and definitive history of the race to the moon' - Economist'Rocket Men is particularly good because it tells the story so coherently' - BBC Focus'Rocket Men is an excellent read' - The Daily Telegraph
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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