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Seeing as it’s a hot topic at the moment what are your recommended moon books.

The collection of photos from Apollo’s VII - XVII is a brilliant book and I’m just tucking in the The Moon A History for the Future. Promising so far.

Oh and a good moon atlas is fun. Particularly if like me you’re trying to tick off the Lunar 100.


 
Posted : 30/06/2019 1:21 pm
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It's Shuttle-era rather than Apollo-era, but I really enjoyed Riding Rockets.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Riding-Rockets-Outrageous-Shuttle-Astronaut/dp/0743276833


 
Posted : 30/06/2019 1:42 pm
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2 from me:

Lost Moon by Jim Lovell

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0395670292/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_lylgDbT1NW81 F">Linky

And Into the Black by Roland White about the development, first flight and then demise of the Shuttle:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0552160229/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_cAlgDbB43F68 N">Linky


 
Posted : 30/06/2019 2:19 pm
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Is it a hot topic?
Andrew Smith - Moondust. Interviews with all the people who bin there done that.


 
Posted : 30/06/2019 2:25 pm
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I also liked Moondust, despite the fact that it’s not critically liked.


 
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Posted : 30/06/2019 3:17 pm
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I started Moondust and thought 'I'm not gonna like this", then it slowly turned awesome. 🙂


 
Posted : 30/06/2019 3:46 pm
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Another not quite a moon book, but I enjoyed "Starman", the biography of Gagarin (and the early Soviet space programme):

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1767720.Starman


 
Posted : 30/06/2019 5:41 pm
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"Failure is not an option" is a great biography from Mission Control...


 
Posted : 30/06/2019 6:40 pm
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Moon Shot by Al Shepard and Deke Slayton. Although Shepard does come across as a bit of an arse.


 
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“Failure is not an option” is a great biography from Mission Control…

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Posted : 30/06/2019 8:15 pm
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Chaikin's A Man on the Moon is definitive as far as Apollo is concerned.


 
Posted : 30/06/2019 9:51 pm
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Rocket Boys, by Homer H Hickam

There's also a movie based on the autobiography... October Sky (which is an anagram of Rocket Boys)

(kind of explains my nick on here too)


 
Posted : 30/06/2019 10:21 pm
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There’s also a movie based on the autobiography… October Sky (which is an anagram of Rocket Boys)

Thanks!

*goes a Googling*


 
Posted : 30/06/2019 10:29 pm
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Chaikin +1


 
Posted : 30/06/2019 11:05 pm

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