MEANWHILE BACK ON EARTH

摘要

Hidden agendas may have fuelled Apollo's flight, but to focus on these downplays one vital fact. Men really did walk on the moon, and that transcends all politics, says Mick O'Hare. Reading Gerard DeGroot's Dark Side of the Moon, one can imagine the months of toil required to piece together secret conversations in the back offices on Capitol Hill and NASA headquarters in the cold-war environment of the ideologically driven 1960s, when the US strove to be the first nation to land a human on the moon. For fans of real-life political intrigue this is essential reading.