A Man on the Moon

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A Man on the Moon 

Andrew 

Chaikin 

Part of the Penguin Magnum Collection: six works of American reportage redesigned and repackaged.

The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969.  When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant step' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600 million people on Earth 250,000 miles away.

A Man on the Moon is the definitive account of the heroic Apollo programme: from the tragedy of the the fire of Apollo 1 during a simulated launch, through the euphoria of the first moonwalk, to the discoveries made by the first scientist in space aboard Apollo 17.

Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with the astronauts and team, this is the story of the twentieth century's greatest human achievement, minute-by-minute, in the words of those who were there.

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