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When We Landed on the Moon: A Memoir by David Dvorkin

birdmanseven's review

5.0

This was an entertaining and informative read. It offers a peek into the day to day of NASA in the 60s on a very personal level. It's interesting to see the changes from how NASA is viewed today versus the fervor with which it was embraced during the Kennedy years. He illustrates the lack of diversity then and shows how that has improved in the NASA of today. You get a sense of what the atmosphere was like and how much was given to the job. It makes you a little sad to think about the ways in which we failed to make good on those earliest promises of exploration. Overall a very good read.

I had the chance to discuss this with the author over on the All the Books Show: https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/episode-204-nasa-50-with-david-dvorkin