The a Man on the Moon

This history of the Apollo program follows the astronauts, engineers, and flight controllers who planned and flew the landings on the Moon, from the early crews through Apollo 17. Chaikin reconstructs training, mission design, the lunar surface days, and the later flights, drawing on interviews with the men who flew. The narrative stays close to operations and to what the crews saw and did, rather than to Washington politics alone. The book is a crewed-spaceflight history of Apollo, not a life of a single astronaut and not a technical manual.

Three-quarter bound in black cloth cover blocked on paper front boards with a photo. Black slipcase printed on all sides with a picture of the lunar surface.