Full Moon Michael Light and Andrew Chaikin

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Product Overview

The most thrilling of all journeys--the missions of the Apollo astronauts to
the surface of the Moon and back--yielded 32,000 extraordinarily beautiful
photographs, the record of a unique human achievement. Until recently, only a
handful of these photographs had been released for publication; but now, for
the first time, NASA has allowed a selection of the master negatives and
transparencies to be scanned electronically, rendering the sharpest images of
space that we have ever seen. Michael Light has woven 129 of these stunningly
clear images into a single composite voyage, a narrative of breathtaking
immediacy and authenticity that begins with the launch and is followed by a
walk in space, an orbit of the Moon, a lunar landing and exploration, and a
return to Earth with an orbit and splashdown. Graced by five 45-inch-wide
gatefolds that display the lunar landscape, from above the surface and at eye
level, in unprecedented detail and clarity, Full Moon conveys on each page the
excitement, disorientation, and awe that the astronauts themselves felt as
they were shot into space and then as they explored an alien landscape and
looked back at their home planet from hundreds of thousands of miles away.
Published on the thirtieth anniversary of Apollo 11--the first landing on the
Moon--this remarkable and mesmerizing volume is, like the voyages it
commemorates and re-creates, an experience both intimate and monumental. Read
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