{"product_id":"norman-mailer-moonfire-9783836571135","title":"Norman Mailer. Moonfire","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Norman Mailer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taschen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Taschen\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt has been called \u003cstrong\u003ethe single most historic event of the 20th century\u003c\/strong\u003e: On July 20, 1969, \u003cstrong\u003eNeil Armstrong\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eBuzz Aldrin\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Collins\u003c\/strong\u003e met John F. Kennedy's call for a manned Moon landing by the end of the 1960s. A decade of tests and training, a staff of 400,000 engineers and scientists, a budget of billions, and the most powerful rocket ever launched all combined in an unprecedented event watched by millions the world over. \u003cstrong\u003eAnd no one captured the men, the mood, and the machinery like Norman Mailer\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One of the \u003cstrong\u003egreatest writers of the 20th century, Norman Mailer\u003c\/strong\u003e was hired by\u003cem\u003e LIFE\u003c\/em\u003e magazine in 1969 to cover the Moon shot. He enhanced his reportage in the brilliantly crafted book, \u003cem\u003eOf a Fire on the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e, which is excerpted here. Equally adept at examining\u003cstrong\u003e the science of space travel \u003c\/strong\u003eand \u003cstrong\u003ethe psychology of the people involved\u003c\/strong\u003e--from Saturn V rocket engineer Wernher von Braun to the crucial NASA support staff to the three astronauts--Mailer provides provocative and \u003cstrong\u003etrenchant insights into this epoch-making event\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Illustrating this volume are \u003cstrong\u003ehundreds of photographs\u003c\/strong\u003e and maps from the \u003cstrong\u003eNASA vaults\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003emagazine archives\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eprivate collections\u003c\/strong\u003e. These images document the development of the agency and the mission, life inside the command module and on the Moon's surface, and the world's jubilant reaction to the landing. This \u003cstrong\u003e50-year anniversary edition\u003c\/strong\u003e includes \u003cstrong\u003ecaptions by leading Apollo 11 experts\u003c\/strong\u003e that explain the history and science behind the images, citing the mission log, publications of the day, and postflight astronaut interviews; while an evocative \u003cstrong\u003eintroduction by Colum McCann\u003c\/strong\u003e celebrates Mailer's incomparable skill at transforming \"the science of space... the weight of history... the breadth of mythology\" into prose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889364779159,"sku":"9783836571135","price":8715.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783836571135.webp?v=1781176080","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/norman-mailer-moonfire-9783836571135","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}