Table of Contents

ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface1 Fly Me to the Moon 2 Slaves to a Dream 3 What Are We Waiting For?4 Sputnik 5 The Red Rocket's Glare6 Muttnik 7 Rocket Jocks 8 Before This Decade Is Out 9 The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters 10 Lost in Space 11 Sacri?ces on the Altar of St. John 12 Merry Christmas from the Moon13 Magni?cent Desolation 14 Nothing Left to Do Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

About the Author

Gerard J. DeGroot is professor of modern history at the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland. He is the author of ten books, most recently The Bomb: A Life, which won the prestigious [2004] Westminster Medal for the best book on a war or military topic.

Reviews

"DeGroot weaves a compelling tale." -Chicago Sun-Times "Dark Side of the Moon is an elegant contribution to the history of the space age." -The Sunday Times "The book is well written and quite engaging with its cast of colorful characters." -Choice,/p> "DeGroot writes compellingly about the convergence of political, military, and industrial forces that produced the 'magnificent madness' of the space agency NASA in the 1960s... A fine writer with a real flair for storytelling has fun with NASA's extravagance and its tendency to look for complex solutions where simple ones would do." -The Financial Times "DeGroot presents a chronicle of exploration, concentrating on the utter uselessness of NASA's lunar missions, boondoggles every bit as myopic and costly as the Cold War that spawned them." -The Atlantic Monthly