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Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings

by Earl Swift

8:36 P.M. EST, December 12, 1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt braked to a stop alongside Nansen Crater, keenly aware that they were far, far from home. They had flown nearly a quarter-million miles to the man in the moon’s left eye, landed at its edge, and then driven five miles in to this desolate, boulder-strewn landscape. As they gat

Publisher

CUSTOM HOUSE

Publication date

Jul 06, 2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

384

ISBN

9780062986535