Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys
by Michael Collins
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Author: Michael CollinsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-06-25
ISBN: 081541028X
Number of pages: 544
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
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Summary: 4 Stars
Collins writes a richly detailed and intelligent account, laced with smart-alecky humor, of what it was like to join the astronaut corps, the training and planning that go into a mission, and what it's like to go into space. His description of his anxiety during the period that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon really puts you in the moment and makes you realize that making it back was no foregone conclusion.
It makes me sad to see how this book has become dated. We as a nation gave up on manned space exploration 35 years ago, and the shuttle has been a dead end. While I reading the book, I felt a sense of futility that Collins, who wrote the book in the '70s, could never have anticipated.
Carrying the Fire is an excellent astronaut memoir; maybe one day there'll be a reason for somebody to write some new ones.
Reviewer: Liz Clare, co-author of the historical novel "To the Ends of the Earth: The Last Journey of Lewis and Clark"
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NASA astronaut Michael Collins was the first man to walk in space and also piloted the first manned craft to land on the moon.Collins, Michael Books
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