In time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon
landing comes this edition of journalist Andrew Smith's Moondust, now
updated with a new Afterword, that tells the fascinating story of twelve
astronauts who ventured to space, and his interviews with nine of the
surviving men.
The Apollo lunar missions of the 1960s and 1970s have been called the
last optimistic acts of the twentieth century. Twelve astronauts made
this greatest of all journeys and were indelibly marked by it, for
better or for worse. Journalist Andrew Smith tracks down the nine
surviving members of this elite group to find their answers to the
question "Where do you go after you've been to the Moon?"
A thrilling blend of history, reportage, and memoir, Moondust
rekindles the hopeful excitement of an incandescent hour in America's
past when anything seemed possible as it captures the bittersweet
heroism of those who risked everything to hurl themselves out of the
known world--and who were never again quite able to accept its familiar
bounds.