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A Man on the Moon
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bookshelves: non-fiction, science-nature, history, 2018-personal-challenge
Feb 14, 2018
bookshelves: non-fiction, science-nature, history, 2018-personal-challenge
This is not about the scientists, or the engineers, or the thousands of people that made Apollo possible. This book is about the personal lives and inner thoughts of the astronauts. And it is fascinating. Chaikin's book served as the basis for the HBO series From the Earth to the Moon, which I must now watch.
We only have a few Apollo astronauts left living. And we have not been back to the moon. Our "president" this week announced that he wanted to privatize the International Space Station, and I desperately hope that people with sense can stop that from happening. We should be going back to the moon, perhaps try and set up a permanent laboratory or something. We should be sending people to Mars, and more probes to other planets. Science and exploration are part of who we are as human beings. We shouldn't be putting price tags on these things, and they shouldn't be solely American ventures. Getting to the moon was humanity's baby steps. It's time to start walking.
We only have a few Apollo astronauts left living. And we have not been back to the moon. Our "president" this week announced that he wanted to privatize the International Space Station, and I desperately hope that people with sense can stop that from happening. We should be going back to the moon, perhaps try and set up a permanent laboratory or something. We should be sending people to Mars, and more probes to other planets. Science and exploration are part of who we are as human beings. We shouldn't be putting price tags on these things, and they shouldn't be solely American ventures. Getting to the moon was humanity's baby steps. It's time to start walking.
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Quotes Kristy Liked
“It's almost as if Kennedy grabbed a decade out of the 21st century," Cernan said, "and spliced it into the 1960s." That helps to explain why, as I wrote in 1993 in the preface of this book, we weren't entirely ready for Apollo, and why we have struggled to absorb its impact ever since it happened. How could the most futuristic thing humans have ever done be so far in the past?”
― A Man on the Moon
― A Man on the Moon
Reading Progress
January 17, 2018
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Started Reading
January 17, 2018
– Shelved
January 18, 2018
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13.0%
"Being a space geek, I know a fair bit about the Apollo program. But this is just incredible! So many things I didn't know! And tons about the worries, lives, and inner lives about the astronauts."
January 19, 2018
– Shelved as:
non-fiction
January 19, 2018
– Shelved as:
science-nature
January 19, 2018
– Shelved as:
history
January 22, 2018
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23.0%
"Apollo 8 is in the books. I confess, I have a hard time picturing anyone other than Tom Hanks when he talks about Jim Lovell."
January 23, 2018
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39.0%
"Just finished a wonderfully detailed account of Apollo 11. I'd never heard that Buzz Aldrin took communion on the moon. You'd think a Catholic school would have touted that."
February 9, 2018
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56.0%
"According to this book, Ron Howard got things pretty much on the nose with with Apollo 13 movie."
February 13, 2018
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82.0%
"You hardly hear anything about the later Apollo missions. It's sad, really."
February 14, 2018
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Finished Reading
March 28, 2019
– Shelved as:
2018-personal-challenge
