Stuart Woodward reviewed Moon shot by Alan B. Shepard
Review of 'Moon shot' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I had to check whether I read this and I hadn't. The good point is that it tells the story from the perspective of Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton though I'm not sure how much input they had in the writing of the book as a much more detailed book could have been written about both of the astronauts.
It is a good insight into the whole Apollo program, even those missions that the neither Alan or Deke participated in especially the significance of the Apollo 14 mission.
If you have already read other Apollo books you'll probably find a lot of the account familiar.
My only negative comment is that it ends with a rant about President Obama's treatment of NASA. Clearly from the progress that has been made in Space Technology by private industry the warnings in this section don't age well though. I think it is important …
I had to check whether I read this and I hadn't. The good point is that it tells the story from the perspective of Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton though I'm not sure how much input they had in the writing of the book as a much more detailed book could have been written about both of the astronauts.
It is a good insight into the whole Apollo program, even those missions that the neither Alan or Deke participated in especially the significance of the Apollo 14 mission.
If you have already read other Apollo books you'll probably find a lot of the account familiar.
My only negative comment is that it ends with a rant about President Obama's treatment of NASA. Clearly from the progress that has been made in Space Technology by private industry the warnings in this section don't age well though. I think it is important that the NASA of the 1960s and the current institution are clearly separated. As a foreigner to America, I would think that the only thing that matters is how well public money is being spent and what the results are. Jobs were surely lost. The best went into private industry and contractors making hardware that wasn't needed scaled down.
