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Title: The Last Man on the Moon : Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space by Donald A. Davis ISBN: 0-312-19906-6 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.49 (72 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Another Disappointing Astronaut Autobiography
Comment: Gene Cernan is one of America's most experienced and successful astronauts. His three missions were among the most ambitious, successful and exciting of all time. He spent more time, along with partner Harrison Schmitt, than any other man walking on the moon. It was, therefore, with great disappointment that I read this book. What I expect from a book by an astronaut is to really feel and understand what the unique experiences they went through were like. With the notable exception of Mike Collins' autobiography almost none of the astronauts books really provide this. Only 12 men have ever stood on the moon and yet they have not really conveyed what this and other aspects of spaceflight were like in their autobiographies. His dismisses his epic Apollo 17 flight in a few pages and spends more time talking about the politics of crew selection, giving crude descriptions of his wife's figure and other trivia. Also there is a lack of illustrations showing the alien environment he explored so well. In a more positive light, he reveals for the first time the real dangers the Gemini spacewalks entailed and gives a good description of the problems Ed White encountered in Gemini 4 and his own nightmarish experience in Gemini 9.
Rating: 4
Summary: Australian moonshine on the last man!
Comment: I loved the book! I have had it for ten months and must have read it five times. I was just a young Australian schoolboy when Geno went around the moon with Apollo 10 and yet I remember that flight, and especially the one that followed, as if it was yesterday. Like others, I love the book's personal touch. Gone is the techno fuzz typical of so many books on the space age. Geno tells it like it was: pride, glory, pain, sadness, fun, love, tragedy. The only disappointment - and a small one - is that I wanted to know more. More about him, more about his family, more about 1972-1998, a period that passes in the book like a stolen second. Americans should feel proud of what Geno and his colleagues did. The moon landing (along with the U.S.'s involvement in World War II) was perhaps America's greatest hour. Geno I hope you read this, I hope life gives us an opportunity to meet Down-under sometime.
Who needs Buzz Lightyear for a hero. I had Gene Cernan.
Rating: 5
Summary: Better than Sci-fi - Read the real thing
Comment: I couldn't put it down.
This is an action-packed book, that brings you right into the cockpit of several of our space capsules and outside of them during an EVA.
He speaks about his carreer before the space program, how he got into it, and then how life is changed forever.
In his matter-of-fact style, Cernan speaks about several of our space-heroes and how he views and interacts with them.
Cernan describes the lunar landscape, his thoughts and feelings while he was there... makes you see it through his eyes.
If you like action, aviation, flying, space, this will be one of your favourite books ever.
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Title: Deke! : An Autobiography by Donald K. Slayton, Michael Cassutt ISBN: 031285918X Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 15 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz ISBN: 0425179877 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 08 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Flight My Life in Mission Control by Christopher C. Kraft, Chris Kraft ISBN: 0452283043 Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc. Pub. Date: 26 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew L. Chaikin, Tom Hanks ISBN: 0140272011 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins, Charles A. Lindbergh ISBN: 081541028X Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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