On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when two Americans, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, walked on the moon. Now the greatest event of the twentieth century is magnificently retold through the eyes and ears of the people who were there. Based on the interviews with twenty-three moon voyagers, as well as those who struggled to get the program moving, journalist Andrew Chaikin conveys every aspect of the missions with breathtaking immediacy: from the rush of liftoff, to the heart-stopping lunar touchdown, to the final hurdle of reentry.
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September 30, 2015 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781943499755
- File size: 662524 KB
- Duration: 23:00:15
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- English
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A 23-hour journey to the moon and back needs a narrator who is easy on the ears, and Bronson Pinchot's voice has a wonderful timbre. Andrew Chaikin's chronicle of the Apollo missions, first published in 1994, is primarily a human story based on in-depth interviews with 23 of the astronauts who went to the moon. Pinchot's narration is a good match with the warmth of Chaikin's prose, though his cadences at the ends of paragraphs often seem awkward. He also has a tendency to use melodramatic emphasis whenever he reads a large number. Nonetheless, this audio version deserves to attract a younger generation to the definitive account of one of the greatest technological achievements of all time. D.B. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
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