David West Reynolds is a bestselling author of nine books. While researching Apollo, he spent time in an original lunar module trainer, got to try on lunar surface gloves, and was able to take a seat in a lunar rover. Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has sculpted a life-size dinosaur skeleton, created museum models of historic spacecraft, and relocated desert filming locations in Tunisia featured in the original Star Wars film. He lives in Marin County, California.
"Reynolds writes of the program (and the history leading to it)
with verve and insight using words we all use but often arranged
differently in concise elegant flowing combinations. His writing
underscores points and insights in ways that snap the reader into a
higher state of awareness making the knowledge deep instead of
factoidal." -Travel for Aircraft (Seattle Post Intelligencer Blog)
"The first, a re-release of 2002's Apollo: The Epic Journey to the
Moon covers the complete Apollo program from its inception in 1963
to its final mission in 1972 as well as a good deal of background
information on the history of rocketry, including the German rocket
program and America's pre-Apollo Mercury and Gemini programs.
Apollo does a good job of recounting the technological and
political history of the moon program, but the most interesting
part of the story is the depiction of Werner von Braun as a
consummate promoter and salesman for rocketry and space
exploration." - i09.com
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