I can remember vividly, my parents gathering my siblings and me around the television (black and white!) to watch the coverage of the Apollo 11 astronauts landing on the moon. I was twelve, and somehow it seemed so smooth and easy. We knew it was a big deal, but we had no idea what it took to make it all happen. Moon Men Return brings you back to a time before space travel was so commonplace that few of us even keep track of space shuttle launches, space station missions, and the names of current astronauts, and it takes you to a place we never saw up close, the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet. While the names Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are still remembered by those who followed their expedition at the time and even to those born a generation later, few ever heard about Captain Carl Seiberlich and his executive officer, Commander Chris Lamb, who together guided Hornet to the splashdown area thousands of miles out in the Pacific, despite the heavy cloud cover that made determining their exact position in the days leading up to the "Big Day" exceedingly difficult (in the days before GPS).
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