Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings

Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings - Earl Swift

Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings


"Earl Swift lays out this great unsung saga with verve and magisterial sweep. --Hampton Sides, author of In the Kingdom of IceA unique and brilliant rediscovery of the final Apollo Moon landings, revealing that these extraordinary yet overlooked exploring expeditions--distinguished by the use of the revolutionary Lunar Roving Vehicle--deserve to be celebrated as a pinnacle of human adventure
8:36 p.m. EST, December 12, 1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt braked to a stop alongside the Nansen Crater. They had flown nearly a quarter-million miles to the man in the moon's left eye, landed at its edge, then driven nearly five miles farther to this desolate, boulder-strewn hole. As they gathered samples, they strode at the outermost edge of mankind's travels. This place, this moment, marked the extreme of exploration for a species born to wander. A few feet away sat the machine that made the achievement possible: an electric go-cart that folded like a business letter, weighed less than eighty pounds in the moon's reduced gravity, and muscled its way up mountains, around craters, and over undulating plains on America's last three ventures to the lunar surface. In the decades since, the exploits of the astronauts on those missions have dimmed in the shadow cast by the first moon landing. But Apollo 11 was but a prelude to what came later: while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin trod a sliver of flat lunar desert smaller than a football field, Apollos 15, 16, and 17 each commanded a mountainous area the size of Manhattan. All told, their crews traveled fifty-six miles, and brought deep science and a far more swashbuckling style of exploration to the moon. And they triumphed for one very American reason: they drove.In this fast-moving exploration of the rover and the adventures it ignited, Earl Swift puts the reader alongside the men who dreamed of driving on the moon, designed and built the machine, troubleshot its flaws, and used it on the moon's surface. Finally shining a deserved spotlight on these overlooked characters and the missions they created, Across the Airless Wilds is a celebration of human genius, perseverance, and daring.

"Earl Swift lays out this great unsung saga with verve and magisterial sweep. --Hampton SidesIn this brilliantly observed (Newsweek) rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, the acclaimed author of Chesapeake Requiem reveals that these extraordinary yet overshadowed missions--distinguishe
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"Earl Swift lays out this great unsung saga with verve and magisterial sweep. --Hampton Sides, author of In the Kingdom of IceA unique and brilliant rediscovery of the final Apollo Moon landings, revealing that these extraordinary yet overlooked exploring expeditions--distinguished by the use of the revolutionary Lunar Roving Vehicle--deserve to be celebrated as a pinnacle of human adventure
8:36 p.m. EST, December 12, 1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt braked to a stop alongside the Nansen Crater. They had flown nearly a quarter-million miles to the man in the moon's left eye, landed at its edge, then driven nearly five miles farther to this desolate, boulder-strewn hole. As they gathered samples, they strode at the outermost edge of mankind's travels. This place, this moment, marked the extreme of exploration for a species born to wander. A few feet away sat the machine that made the achievement possible: an electric go-cart that folded like a business letter, weighed less than eighty pounds in the moon's reduced gravity, and muscled its way up mountains, around craters, and over undulating plains on America's last three ventures to the lunar surface. In the decades since, the exploits of the astronauts on those missions have dimmed in the shadow cast by the first moon landing. But Apollo 11 was but a prelude to what came later: while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin trod a sliver of flat lunar desert smaller than a football field, Apollos 15, 16, and 17 each commanded a mountainous area the size of Manhattan. All told, their crews traveled fifty-six miles, and brought deep science and a far more swashbuckling style of exploration to the moon. And they triumphed for one very American reason: they drove.In this fast-moving exploration of the rover and the adventures it ignited, Earl Swift puts the reader alongside the men who dreamed of driving on the moon, designed and built the machine, troubleshot its flaws, and used it on the moon's surface. Finally shining a deserved spotlight on these overlooked characters and the missions they created, Across the Airless Wilds is a celebration of human genius, perseverance, and daring.

"Earl Swift lays out this great unsung saga with verve and magisterial sweep. --Hampton SidesIn this brilliantly observed (Newsweek) rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, the acclaimed author of Chesapeake Requiem reveals that these extraordinary yet overshadowed missions--distinguishe
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