Moondust Part2

What a great book! It arrives at the very same moment the return to the moon is being discussed in the news. The author really wrosk through why his facination with the moon landings seems to have grown over the years and and why now it reaches some sort of climax. He does point out that at the time of writing he wa sthe same age as most who went to the moon, as am I. each of the moonwalkers goes through their own process of dealing with the what happened and coming to terms wwith it. By the end I can even agree with the author's view and understand why Neil Armstrong has said or done very little.

One of my earliest memories was being pulled from the TV watching what i think was Apollo 17, the last one, to go to kindergarten. It was life altering to see these men on the moon. After that my grandma's trips to Cape Canaveral, following Skylab, and then the lauynchof the shuttle all seemed like feeble attempts to re-live that excitemnet that I could even feel as a 5 year old. Now 30 odd years later we're all wondering if it really happened, someone don't even believe iit did, and many wonder why we should ever try and do it again. If you're at all curious about what it does to men, internally, you'll need to read this book