( 6 reviews )
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Posted: Jan 12 2009
I have to quote from another review here- from an Apollo program engineer: "I finally gave up listing the errors I found in this book" I concur. This book is (to quote the hospital tech in the film "The Right Stuff", "...b-a-d, BAD". While I was exposed to Apollo program engineering as a youth, my era of engineering experience is after the fact, but being an American spaceflight historian and a believer in either being accurate (otherwise, why bother?) or at the least show the attempt(!) this one is just not good- full of supposition, and statistics that can be verified if one makes the attempt. Get "First Man" by James Hansen- it's the authorized bio of Neil A. and is cool (for me anyway) in that he even takes the reader back generations leading up to the creation of a truly heroic human.
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Posted: Apr 8 2007
The author seems to have prided himself on his research and cites where he gets most of his information right in the text. This style disrupts the story telling, at least for me. But all in all, the book did a good job of telling the story of Neil Armstrong - the first man on the moon. I have not read any other biographies of Armstrong, but compared with biographies of other astronauts this book is fair.
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Posted: Aug 5 2006
I found this book similar to modern movies that are all special effects and no substance. Almost everything is told in an over dramatic way. The author tries to build excitement by creating it himself, rather than just telling the story. This book pales in comparison with astronaut Michael Collin's excellent autobiography, "Carrying the Fire".
