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Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings,Used
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"THRILLING. ... Upend[s] the Apollo narrative entirely." The Times (London)A "brilliantly observed" (Newsweek) and "endlessly fascinating" (WSJ) rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, revealing why these extraordinary yet overshadowed missionsdistinguished by the use of the revolutionary lunar roving vehicledeserve to be celebrated as the pinnacle of human adventure and exploration.One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 Best Books of the Month8:36 P.M. EST, December 12, 1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt braked to a stop alongside Nansen Crater, keenly aware that they were far, far from home. They had flown nearly a quartermillion miles to the man in the moons left eye, landed at its edge, and then driven five miles in to this desolate, boulderstrewn landscape. As they gathered samples, they strode at the outermost edge of mankinds travels. This place, this moment, marked the extreme of exploration for a species born to wander.A few feet away sat the machine that made the achievement possible: an electric gocart that folded like a business letter, weighed less than eighty pounds in the moons reduced gravity, and muscled its way up mountains, around craters, and over undulating plains on Americas last three ventures to the lunar surface.In the decades since, the exploits of the astronauts on those final expeditions have dimmed in the shadow cast by the first moon landing. But Apollo 11 was but a prelude to what came later: while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin trod a sliver of flat lunar desert smaller than a football field, Apollos 15, 16, and 17 each commanded a mountainous area the size of Manhattan. All told, their crews traveled fiftysix miles, and brought deep science and a far more swashbuckling style of exploration to the moon. And they triumphed for one very American reason: they drove.In this fastmoving history of the rover and the adventures it ignited, Earl Swift puts the reader alongside the men who dreamed of driving on the moon and designed and built the vehicle, troubleshot its flaws, and drove it on the moons surface. Finally shining a deserved spotlight on these overlooked characters and the missions they created, Across the Airless Wilds is a celebration of human genius, perseverance, and daring.
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