Voices from the Moon
What it was like, in the astronauts’ own words. Excerpts from a new book by Andrew Chaikin.
- By Andrew Chaikin with Victoria Kohl
- AirSpaceMag.com, May 20, 2009
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The contact with the water is a pretty good smash. As a matter of fact, the altimeter was wrong….I was calling off the altitude to Gene and Jack. And we got down to five hundred feet. Four hundred feet. Three hundred feet—Boom!—we hit the water. So I wasn’t prepared. And neither were they.
—Ron Evans, Apollo 17 command module pilot
(Photo: Al Worden, Jim Irwin, and Dave Scott of Apollo 15 enjoy the Pacific air after splashdown.)
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Comments (1)
Another excellent book on this is Rocket Men by Craig Nelson. What I found fascinating about this book was the way Nelson deftly wove together the Apollo story with ongoing global events. The likes of Werner Von Brown, Walt Disney, Khrushchev, the Cold War, all come together in such a way as to shed a new light on an often told story.
Posted by Dave on July 18,2009 | 08:59 AM