Goodbye Moon
Andrew O’Hagan: Me and the Moon, 25 February 2010
The Book of the Moon
by Rick Stroud.
Doubleday, 368 pp., £16.99, May 2009,978 0 385 61386 6 Show More
by Rick Stroud.
Doubleday, 368 pp., £16.99, May 2009,
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
by Craig Nelson.
John Murray, 404 pp., £18.99, June 2009,978 0 7195 6948 7 Show More
by Craig Nelson.
John Murray, 404 pp., £18.99, June 2009,
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon
by Buzz Aldrin and Ken Abraham.
Bloomsbury, 336 pp., £16.99, July 2009,978 1 4088 0402 5 Show More
by Buzz Aldrin and Ken Abraham.
Bloomsbury, 336 pp., £16.99, July 2009,
“... the picture-postcard commentary he has always been asked to provide. There was no Robert Frost or Allen Ginsberg in space, but we have Buzz: ‘Our blue and brown habitat of humanity appeared like a jewel of life in the midst of the surrounding blackness. From space there were no observable borders between nations, no observable reasons for the wars we ... ”