# A Man on the Moon

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- Authors: [Andrew Chaikin](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrew-chaikin)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2009-05-07

## Description

The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant step' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600 million people on Earth 250,000 miles away. 'A Man on the Moon' is the definitive account of the heroic Apollo programme: from the tragedy of the fire in Apollo 1 during a simulated launch, through the euphoria of the first moonwalk, to the discoveries made by the first scientist in space aboard Apollo 17. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with the astronauts and team, this is the story of the twentieth century's greatest human achievement, minute-by-minute, in the words of those who were there.

## Editions

### A Man on the Moon

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4136-652-3
- Published: 2019-12-19
- Language: en_GB

### A Man on the Moon

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4136-315-7
- Pages: 704
- Published: 2019-06-13
- Language: en_GB

### A Man on the Moon

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4104-183-4
- Pages: 704
- Published: 2009-05-07
- Language: en_GB

### A Man on the Moon

- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4311-235-8
- Pages: 720
- Published: 2007-08-28
- Language: en_US