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Following a fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11, as NASA prepares to return astronauts to the moon, Footprints in the Dirt offers a thorough, engrossing, and multifaceted consideration of the Apollo missions. The journey of Apollo 11 was a triumph of real human endeavor, persistence, and technology, one of the biggest achievements in history. This book starts with the objective that sent Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin to the moon, then practices American spaceflight through the harrowing recovery of Apollo 13 before moving on to the successful joint Apollo-Soyuz objective in 1975. Pulling on intensive research and interviews with key numbers in the space program, the authors convey the real human drama and graph the technological marvels that went into the Apollo missions. They also put the accomplishments of American spaceflight into historical framework, analyzing the competitive space contest with the Soviet Union, the tasks of politics and personality in releasing the objective, and the consequences, practical and deep, of this massive step for mankind.
