I know the Apollo story well so there was not too much new Apollo technical information in this book but Mike Collins’ humour and personality really shines through.

The section on Gemini was packed with information on Gemini, Agena rendezvous and spacewalks. The Apollo 1 fire was movingly retold.

Mike Collins pulls no punches in writing about his fellow astronauts and I wonder if he lost any friendships due to the descriptions of them written here. This is probably the personal account of all those written about the astronaut program.

Oh and read it while you can before politically incorrect books are banned or censored