Earl Swift

A very enjoyable book covering the history of NASA and the Apollo space program. The close up insight on the lunar rover conception, design and missions made for an excellent read. The included astronaut dialog along with maps and many images gives a better understanding of the risks so few people have experienced, and how important the rovers were to the final three landings. With the Artemis program under way, it's exciting to think about future footprints and rover tracks running alongside those historic Apollo EVAs.… (mer)

If you’re a big fan of the Apollo missions and this is certainly one book to add to your collection. Earl Swift has shed much-needed light on the overlooked missions of Apollos 15 to 17 through the exciting addition of a lunar roving vehicle. The book is extensively researched and well written. For my taste I was less interested in all the intricate details of the design development and contracting phases that take up the first 2/3 of the book. It wasn’t until the last third of the book that we get to the actual experience of lunar rovers on the surface of the moon and the astronauts experience driving them. One of the most interesting parts of their experience was their ability to innovate an impromptu repair. And this may be a spoiler alert but I will say even duck tape went to the moon and can be used there.… (mer)