About this item
Twenty-four guys went to the Moon in the late sixties/early seventies. Of them, 12 walked on its surface. Three of them made the journey twice. The author met 20 of the 24 who made the journey, and 11 of the 12 who walked on its surface, and has an archive of transcribed tapes from talks and presentations and book signings given by them. These 24 humans have been the only ones to see at first-hand what our planet looks like, slowly spinning without any visible means of suspension in the vastness of space. Who were they, and how did they describe their experience? This book provides a record of the human tales and complexity behind the technological triumph of Apollo, how going to the Moon affected them, and the lives they led on returning to Earth. This, in some way, represents the Legacy; passing on what we learned from the first time we went to the Moon.
About the Author
Derek Webber was born in the UK in 1945, and moved to the USA in 1993. He considers himself a young American, having become a US citizen in 2000.Although the author of maybe a hundred technical papers, and a co-author of four books with a space-related theme, "The Wright Stuff" is his first book as sole-author. He is a former satellite engineer, and has spent most of his professional life in the commercial space business (no, that does not mean real-estate)and has had a lot of fun buying and selling satellites and launch vehicles (rockets!). But it is human space flight, and ultimately space tourism, which has become his great passion. And hopefully the book conveys some of that to his readers.
