{"id":23638,"date":"2021-03-12T13:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T18:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=23638"},"modified":"2021-03-12T12:36:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T17:36:09","slug":"folio-edition-of-a-man-on-the-moon-by-andrew-chaikin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=23638","title":{"rendered":"Folio edition of “A Man on the Moon” by Andrew Chaikin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Chaikin<\/a> sent me this announcement of a new fully-illustrated Folio edition of his classic A Man on the Moon<\/strong><\/a>,<\/em> a vivd history of the Apollo missions. Andrew says he “did all the photo selection and image prep work for the edition, which I think has turned out beautifully<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

A Man on the Moon<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts<\/strong><\/em>
\nAndrew Chaikin<\/a><\/p>\n

With a new preface by the author <\/em>
\nForeword by Tom Hanks<\/em>
\n\u2018I\u2019ve been there. Chaikin took me back.\u2019\u00a0 Gene Cernan, Apollo 17 Commander<\/em><\/p>\n

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Almost a decade in the writing, A Man on the Moon<\/strong><\/em> is the definitive story of the Apollo programme. Andrew Chaikin\u2019s authoritative account is based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the astronauts, as well as the scientists, engineers and flight controllers who shared every heartbeat of their voyages. This spectacular two-volume Folio edition features an exclusive selection of photography, along with a new preface by the author and a foreword by Tom Hanks.<\/p>\n

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Packed with a photography selection curated by the author from his personal archive that features previously unpublished images and sharp new scans of frames from NASA films, this is the ultimate edition of Chaikin\u2019s awe-inspiring history. As well as nearly 200 colour and black-and-white photographs integrated within the text, it has additional full-colour sections \u2013 including an eight-page fold-out in each volume \u2013 that show off the superb images to their best advantage. The author has expertly matched each image to the text, giving us a complete and unrivalled visual and oral history of the Apollo missions.<\/p>\n

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A Man on the Moon<\/strong> spans the whole of the Apollo programme. With its exhilarating minute-by-minute accounts of the missions, Chaikin vividly captures what Tom Hanks calls in his 1998 preface the \u2018romantic, epic, historic adventure of it all\u2019. It is the complete story of humankind\u2019s greatest feat of exploration, from the deadly Apollo 1 capsule fire, the pioneering flight of Apollo 8 and Neil Armstrong\u2019s \u2018giant leap for mankind\u2019 to near-catastrophe aboard Apollo 13. It is also includes the often-overlooked later missions, which saw scientists and astronauts test the limits of lunar exploration and deliver geological insights that revolutionised our understanding of both the moon and our own planet.<\/p>\n