mickb's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
informative
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
5.0
rj6578's review against another edition
5.0
I love science but wouldn’t consider myself a huge space fan. However, this book was one of the best I’ve ever read. Hearing about the astronauts and their missions was incredible. I’d read this again.
rltinha's review against another edition
3.0
Vale pela quantidade de factos novos que se ficam a saber, conhecendo o seu ponto melhor no modo como as sucessivas missões Apollo vão sendo narradas a partir do ponto em que se diferenciam das demais (e anteriores).
(Parece óbvio depois de feito, mas não o era antes de ser feito.)
Além de deitar por Terra a imagem de candura dos astronautas, agora surgidos como peneirentos armados aos cágados, ainda que dotados de tremenda capacidade técnica, é no modo como relata a luta muito particular das mulheres dos astronautas que Chaikin irrita até aos quarks. Quanta narração de puro machismo primário e paternalista num culto da mulher-adereço, absolutamente merecedor do Imbecilóidezinho d'Ouro!
(Parece óbvio depois de feito, mas não o era antes de ser feito.)
Além de deitar por Terra a imagem de candura dos astronautas, agora surgidos como peneirentos armados aos cágados, ainda que dotados de tremenda capacidade técnica, é no modo como relata a luta muito particular das mulheres dos astronautas que Chaikin irrita até aos quarks. Quanta narração de puro machismo primário e paternalista num culto da mulher-adereço, absolutamente merecedor do Imbecilóidezinho d'Ouro!
saralynnburnett's review against another edition
4.0
I read this in preparation for our trip to Florida to meet the Apollo Astronauts and I'm so glad I did! The book was written to where you couldn't put it down - I hadn't thought much of the space program being the age I am, but now I see why these men are such heros.
tarmstrong112's review against another edition
5.0
Amazing book! The Apollo program is fascinating. The pinnacle of human scientific achievement. This book chronicled the entire program in great detail. I find that books on Apollo focus heavily on Apollo 11, then kind of skip over the rest, with some focus on Apollo 13 because these are the two "famous" mission. This book focuses on the entire Apollo program as a whole, giving equal coverage to every mission and every astronaut. This made it endlessly interesting to me and I am very glad I read it.
nelsta's review against another edition
5.0
After Perseverance's successful landing on Mars last month, I felt inspired to read more about space. Specifically, I gravitated toward the Apollo program and the titanic leaps of engineering, geology, navigation, and understanding it provided. Last year, or the year before, I read "Apollo" and gave it a perfect five star score. I thought it was practically perfect and couldn't be beat. Well, I wasn't wrong, per se, but its only equal is "A Man on the Moon" by Andrew Chaikin.
This book merits an unequivocal five stars. Not only is the subject absolutely fascinating, but the writing and delivery (on Audible) is impeccable; flawless, even. I was often so engrossed in the story that I found myself staring out the window, mouth agape, stupefied by the wonders these twenty-four men beheld.
While "Apollo" masterfully explains the feats of engineering and science that helped propel NASA's astronauts to the moon, "A Man on the Moon" is decidedly more human. It focuses on the astronauts' stories and explains, often in direct quotes, just how it felt to hurtle into space at record-breaking speeds atop the most powerful rocket ever created, hurtling toward a celestial body about which humans had essentially only theories. While movies may focus on Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong, this book described each Apollo mission in enormous detail. I was spellbound while listening to the stories of each mission, but Apollos 8, 12, and 17 were especially interesting to me.
It's almost unfathomable that humans dared to walk on the moon, only to retreat into Earth orbit and stay there for the next six decades. This book, originally published in the mid 90's, discusses NASA's fledgling plan to travel to Mars. I pray that happens, if only so I can read a book as equally perfect as this one about the first human to step foot on another planet.
This book merits an unequivocal five stars. Not only is the subject absolutely fascinating, but the writing and delivery (on Audible) is impeccable; flawless, even. I was often so engrossed in the story that I found myself staring out the window, mouth agape, stupefied by the wonders these twenty-four men beheld.
While "Apollo" masterfully explains the feats of engineering and science that helped propel NASA's astronauts to the moon, "A Man on the Moon" is decidedly more human. It focuses on the astronauts' stories and explains, often in direct quotes, just how it felt to hurtle into space at record-breaking speeds atop the most powerful rocket ever created, hurtling toward a celestial body about which humans had essentially only theories. While movies may focus on Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong, this book described each Apollo mission in enormous detail. I was spellbound while listening to the stories of each mission, but Apollos 8, 12, and 17 were especially interesting to me.
It's almost unfathomable that humans dared to walk on the moon, only to retreat into Earth orbit and stay there for the next six decades. This book, originally published in the mid 90's, discusses NASA's fledgling plan to travel to Mars. I pray that happens, if only so I can read a book as equally perfect as this one about the first human to step foot on another planet.
jayhawkshoes's review against another edition
5.0
The book that the HBO show "From the Earth to the Moon" if based on; a wonderful look at the amazing effort which resulted in the moon landings. When you are done with this book, you will be in awe that we ever pulled it off. Definately not a dry history book.
speelu's review against another edition
4.0
Very good book just lots of information which makes it slow at times.