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Summary: Not bad, but better overall astronaut accounts elsewhere...
Review: This is a pretty light (and light-hearted) account of one of the most experienced astronauts in NASA history. Really, just a re-hashing of the program and the space race with only a few new details (Gemini space-walking problems...Apollo 17 details). This only serves as a decent compliment to Chaiken's "Man on the Moon" and pales in astronaut biography to Lovell's "Lost Moon". Not a totally bad read, but not great history either...
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Summary: Outstanding! A true "insider's view" of the U.S. space pgm!
Review: I loved this book! I just happened to be at the Kennedy Space Center when Gene Cernan was signing his book back in '99, and I bought a copy right then and there! This is one heck of a plain-spoken, mince-no-words look at the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of an ordinary person who was thrust into a historically extraordinary role. What's different about this one is that Astronaut Cernan speaks from the heart; recounting all the emotions he experienced during his space adventures and all the stages of preparation that led to them. The book does well in covering all the aspects of the space program, and does it from an intimate, insider point of view. Towards the end, the tenor of the book changes to a more philosophically-inclined one, as Cernan looks at his accomplishments (and shortcomings) from the perspective of an "ordinary" grandfather... All in all, a strong booster for the space program - and for humanity's role in future exploration. All true space aficionados will love this book!
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Summary: The golden time and a man that lived in it
Review: The book shows a lot of the time between 1960 and 1972 what's going on in the Nasa. It shows the technics and the humans that lived for only one point the fly to the moon. There were many that lost their lives there were others that lost like the crew of Apollo 1 this dream like Don Engle which was orgin for Apollo 17 nominatet but flown first with STS 1 in the year 1981 into Space. The Book shows the Astronaut Cernan, it shows the Man with family cernan it shows the soldier Cernan and finally it shows the human cernan. If you want to know more about the golden Times of nasa the apollo aera and the time of the running to the moon between the russians and the americans, read this book.
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Summary: Learn More About Life As An Astronaut
Review: I grew up by NASA-JSC, and at one time I lived in Nassau Bay where Capt. Cernan (USN,ret.) once lived. Cernan writes in a manner that is easily understood. Although I liked his mentioning of how on Gemini 9 with Tom Stafford (Lt. General, USAF, ret.) he had to find the stars to track the spacecraft and do some calculations (which today could be done much easier via laptop computer), most of the technical jargon is left out. You feel as if you are taking off aircraft carriers and flying inside spacecraft and aircraft. Find out what it is like to land on a carrier for the first time and survive a helicopter crash. Cernan's book talks more about the PEOPLE involved in the astronaut program. He also goes into a few humorous stories about sliding down banisters at the White House and Guenter Wendt (the pad fuhrer) getting him out of a traffic ticket. He is not afraid to discuss the feelings of other astronauts, and how he felt when his best friend Roger Chaffee died in the Apollo 1 Fire. I really appreciate his mentioning of the astronaut's wives, saying that "those wives should be in the history books."
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Summary: Cernan tells it like it is
Review: I loved the book so much that I read it twice. It kept me reading until I was done. It was not filled with NASA jargon that a layman couldn't understand, but I understood what he was saying and it gave me a higher respect for the dangers that they went through.
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Summary: A cynical attitude toward his fellow heroes
Review: Eugene Cernan's book offers us another look at the manned space flight programs of the 60' and 70's. His primary focus in the book was on the Gemini flights with special emphasis on his near disastrous space-walk during the Gemini 9 flight. Many, many pages were devoted to the details and trials of Apollo crew selection and training but the book skimped on actual flight information and aspects of his Apollo 17 moon mission. The real details of the Apollo 17 mission are what I expected from this book but did not receive. Cernan also was not squeamish at all about denigrating his fellow astronauts. Got the feeling that there were quite a few axes left over from those days to grind. Maybe so, but the cynical attitude toward his fellow heroes does not make a better book in my opinion. On a sadder note, the book does attempt to address the issue of the disintegration of Cernan's 1st marriage. Hopefully, Cernan now knows that marriage and family have to come first, even before a space career. It is a real shame that seemingly highly successful people like the astronauts just do not seem to want to realize this simple fact.
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Summary: Geno is the man
Review: Cernan opens up and tells it like it is.You don't have to be a space buff to enjoy this book. If you want to buy just one astro bio this is the one!
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Summary: A page turner. . .
Review: I'm an admitted fan of the space program, and was looking for a book to read while on vacation. I picked this one up three times, and put it back twice before finally deciding to buy it because I could find nothing else. I didn't put it down again. Gene Cernan's story is a riveting behind the scenes look at the NASA space race through Apollo, through his eyes. A wonderful journey, and you feel like you're going with him. I'm glad I bought it.
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Summary: HEART WARS
Review: No disrespect to those other fine historians of astronautical endeavour - to the great Jim Lovell, Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin or Wally Schirra - but this is the best, most literate, human and compelling book written about the US space program. Don Davis's brilliant guiding hand is in evidence throughout - the story is tautened like a tighrope - but Cernan's heart is never less than present and open and the reader is treated to a full-roundedness of character unlike any previous offering. There is no science-politics, damage-control or self-effacement here. Cernan postures himself as a competitive, often tunnel-visioned workaholic, a frontier American, determined to pull the ultimate prize of a moon walk, chronically overlooking the stresses and needs of his wife Barbara and daughter Tracy, while remaining ever sensitive and loving...This book is Homeric, and lingering. Its dramatic and insightful value goes beyond such issues as the Apollo 13 crises...
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Summary: Thanks Mr. Cernan/Don Davis for sharing Moon experience
Review: This book is the best Apollo /moonwalker book that I've read in a very long time! At least Mr. Cernan is willing to share his lunar experience with human race! I f only more astronauts would do the same; I'll just bet ya that more funding would have been allocated for more manned-apollo and Skylab missions! It's not fair that other Apollo astro's. won't discuss or talk of lunar trip! I feel it's their obligation to share it with humanity! Thanks to Eugene Cernan/Don Davis, and a few other Apollo astro's., it helps those of us who have always wanted to go to Moon to know exactly what trip and lunar walk/mission was like! Thanks Mr. Cernan and Don Davis for a great book! Wish you other moonwalkers would ......"share the wealth" of the experience and adventure!
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