Having just finished reading Moondust, I’ve been thinking about the moon quite a bit. It was such a feat of human ingenuity, such a risk, such a financial cost to get there ($100bn in today’s dollars), and nothing has come close to it since. Why did we do it? Why is it still so mesmerizing to see those photos of our planet from the moon? Why do so many people devote themselves to the idea that it was a hoax? Will we ever make it to Mars?
I thoroughly recommend Moondust if you’ve forgotten what was so amazing about the Apollo moon landings. The author interviews many of the guys who walked on the moon (there are only 9 of them alive today) and tries to get an answer to the fundamental question: what was it like to walk on the moon?
There is a documentary film coming out soon called In the Shadow of the Moon which is all about the moon landings, though I’m not sure if it will end up in any of cinemas here. I live in hope.
October 25th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
great book!