The 1960s were a unique era in America. Americans, free of postwar reparations, were fascinated with NASA, the game-changing space program that put Neil Armstrong on the moon. But it was astronauts like Eugene Cernan who blazed the trail to the moon. He was recruited together with 14 other men in a secret process that saw them become the closest of friends and enemies. Cernan was one of only three men sent twice to the moon, and his second trip was NASA's final lunar mission. Looking back on his eight years in Houston, he realizes he had a life unlike any other. Former astronauts' uncommon insight is combined with archival film and unearthly moonscape images in Mark Craig's quietly epic narrative.
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The 1960s were a unique era in America. Americans, free of postwar reparations, were fascinated with NASA, the game-changing space program that put Neil Armstrong on the moon. But it was astronauts like Eugene Cernan who blazed the trail to the moon. He was recruited together with 14 other men in a secret process that saw them become the closest of friends and enemies. Cernan was one of only three men sent twice to the moon, and his second trip was NASA's final lunar mission. Looking back on his eight years in Houston, he realizes he had a life unlike any other. Former astronauts' uncommon insight is combined with archival film and unearthly moonscape images in Mark Craig's quietly epic narrative.
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