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ONE GIANT LEAP - Charles Fishman

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We recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing. For those who missed it, there was plenty of buzz surrounding the event, with a release of high-definition video footage as feature-length documentary film, and plenty of books about the historic event.  I followed much of it, read many of the books, and so I didn't think I was going to learn many new things about the Apollo program with this book, but I wanted to read it because the event was memorable for me. I was wrong.  I learned a lot. I didn't know that there had been another spacecraft (not of U.S. origin) orbiting the moon when Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins were in orbit and the lunar module was about to make a descent. I didn't know who manufactured the spacesuits used for the first lunar expedition (and how they were chosen). I didn't know that a 25 year-old student with a notebook of handwritten notes had the power to abort the mission in the very last seconds and was asked if the