Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth Audiobook (Free)

In time for the 50th anniversary from the Apollo 11 Moon landing comes this edition of journalist Andrew Smith’s book, now up to date with a new Afterword, that tells the exciting story of 12 astronauts who ventured to space, and his interviews with 9 of the surviving men.

“Smith’s book succeeds…because he bungee-cords jointly a lot of intriguing digressions.”-New York Situations

The Apollo lunar missions from the 1960s and 1970s have already been called the last optimistic acts from the twentieth about Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth century. Twelve astronauts produced this greatest of all journeys and had been indelibly marked because of it, for good or for bad. Journalist Andrew Smith tracks down the nine making it through members of the top notch group to discover their answers to the query ‘Where do you follow you’ve been to the Moon?’

A thrilling blend of history, reportage, and memoir, Moondust rekindles the hopeful excitement of the incandescent hour in America’s former when anything seemed possible as it captures the bittersweet heroism of those who risked everything to hurl themselves out of the known world-and who were never again quite in a position to accept its familiar bounds.