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A review by lakecake
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings by Earl Swift
4.0
I won a copy of this book through Goodreads Giveaways and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Earl Swift has written a very far-reaching account of the Apollo Lunar missions and the rovers they took with them, but even in all its detail it remains an easy and fascinating read. There are so many things in here—brief biographies of the men involved in nearly all aspects of these missions, slight history of space engineering and NASA as an agency, even a little geology and some travelogue bits about Alabama (and the moon)—but it never feels overwhelming. It all comes together into a fascinating whole that will teach you something cool and probably move you, as well.
Earl Swift has written a very far-reaching account of the Apollo Lunar missions and the rovers they took with them, but even in all its detail it remains an easy and fascinating read. There are so many things in here—brief biographies of the men involved in nearly all aspects of these missions, slight history of space engineering and NASA as an agency, even a little geology and some travelogue bits about Alabama (and the moon)—but it never feels overwhelming. It all comes together into a fascinating whole that will teach you something cool and probably move you, as well.