The Most Beautiful Icicle
Inigo Thomas: Apollo 11, 15 August 2019
Reaching for the Moon: A Short History of the Space Race
by Roger D. Launius.
Yale, 256 pp., £20, July 2019,978 0 300 23046 8 Show More
by Roger D. Launius.
Yale, 256 pp., £20, July 2019,
The Moon: A History for the Future
by Oliver Morton.
Economist Books, 334 pp., £20, May 2019,978 1 78816 254 8 Show More
by Oliver Morton.
Economist Books, 334 pp., £20, May 2019,
“... stands at ease, his right arm hanging loosely at his side, the left raised as if he’s about to do something – look at his watch, perhaps? The photograph was taken fifty years ago, on 20 July 1969, and it’s one of the most recognisable photographs from the Apollo missions, among the most famous photographs ever taken. So stark is the contrast between ... ”
