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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys (50th Anniversary Edition)
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Reissued with a new preface by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 journey to the moon
The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder of the event: man reaching the moon remains one of the great events—technical and spiritual—of our lifetime.
In Carrying the Fire, Collins conveys, in a very personal way, the drama, beauty, and humor...
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Interview: Moonshot Author Brian Floca on the Smell of Moon Dust, and Seeing the Earth from Space
What was the most surprising or interesting fact about Apollo 11 and the moon landing that you discovered through writing the book? (I loved learning some of the little details, like about how the astronauts made soup!) I love the soup, too! Maybe my favorite detail—one little thing that jumped out at me the first […]
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