Back to the Moon

Back to the Moon

As a young boy, I was enthralled with NASA’s Apollo Space Program. The Apollo Moon Missions were an exciting time because I was swept up in the American goal of putting a man on the moon and returning him safely before the end of the 1960s. I read and reread my Saturn V poster, outlining all the facts about the Mightiest Space Vehicle ever, and I was glued to the television.

Book Review: ‘The Apollo Chronicles, Engineering America’s First Moon Missions’

Review by Duncan Lunan. The Apollo Chronicles, Engineering America’s First Moon Missions  (2019), Brandon R. Brown, Oxford University Press, hbk, £19.99, xiv + 269 pp. First published in different form, Concatenation, April 2020. In total, roughly 400,000 people worked in the Apollo programme.  The astronauts, and particularly Neil Armstrong, have always emphasised that their accomplishments […]