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Moondust: In Search of the Men who Fell to Earth | Andrew Smith
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In 1999, Andrew Smith was interviewing Charlie Duke, astronaut and moon walker, for the Sunday Times. During the course of the interview, which took place at Duke's Texan home, the telephone rang and Charlie left the room to answer it. When he returned, some twenty minutes later, he seemed visibly upset. It seemed that he'd just heard that, the previous day, one of his fellow moon walkers, the astronaut Pete Conrad, had died. The more Charlie spoke the more Andrew realised that his grief was something more than the mere fact of losing a friend. 'Now theres only nine of us,' he said. Only nine. Which meant that, one day not long from now, there would be none, and when that day came, no one on earth would have known the giddy thrill of gazing back at us from the surface of the moon. The thought shocked Andrew, and still does. Moondust is his attempt to understand why. The Apollo moon programme has been called the last optimistic act of the 20th Century. Over a strange three year period between 1969 and 1972, twelve men made the longest and most eccentric of all journeys, and all were indelibly marked by it. In Moondust Andrew sets out to interview all the remaining astronauts who walked on the moon, and to find out how their lives were changed for ever by what had happened. 'Where do you go after you've been to the moon?' In addition to this question that would prove hugely troubling to many of the returned astronauts, they also had to deal with the fantasies of faceless millions at their backs, for this was the first truly global media event. The walkers would forever be caught between the gravitational pull of the moon and the earth's collective dreaming.
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Oryx
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Getting psyched for the new season of For All Mankind by reading this book.

dabbe Hello there, sleepy pup! 🖤🐾🖤 5mo
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OutsmartYourShelf
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A book about the Apollo lunar missions for Day 9 of #OminousOctober - word of the day is Moon.

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Eggs Well done 👍🏼 1y
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Debdeb
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Wow! That took me months to read!! I don‘t often go for non-fiction and this book has reminded me why. A very interesting read but so hard to get stuck into and I didn‘t have the longing to pick it up like I have with a good fiction

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2: The fear of succeeding scares me, to actually do something right.
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Erofan Wow! You will definitely succeed with the University! Go for it! 🎉 5y
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wanderinglynn You got this! 🙌🏻 Good luck! 🍀 5y
TrishB Good luck with Uni. What are you going to be studying? 5y
squirrelbrain Good luck with the application! Thanks for the tag! 😘 5y
kaysworld1 @TrishB I plan on studying Law. My end is to become a human rights lawyer. 5y
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quietjenn
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I really enjoyed this non-fiction, in which author Andrew Smith set out to interview all the living (at the time) men who walked on the moon. Super fascinating account of an experience none of us will ever have and how it altered their lives. #septembowie #spaceoddity

Marchpane Sounds fascinating! Double Bowie points for "the men who fell to earth" in the subtitle ? 7y
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This excellent book focuses not on facts or science, but emotion -- what was it like to stand on the Moon, and how did their experiences affect the Moonwalkers after returning? Well written and surprisingly gripping.

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