For All Mankind

by Harry Hurt III

Overview

“Far more than a history of lunar exploration . . . [Hurt] is at his best in the deft sketches of the astronauts—as they were and as they became.”—Chicago Tribune
 
Between December 1968 and December 1972, twenty-four men captured the imagination of the world as they voyaged to the moon. In For All Mankind, Harry Hurt III presents a dramatic, engrossing, and expansive account of those journeys. Based on extensive research and exclusive interviews with the Apollo astronauts, For All Mankind remains one of the most comprehensive and revealing firsthand accounts of space travel ever assembled. In their own words, the astronauts share the sights, sounds, thoughts, fears, hopes, and dreams they experienced during their incredible voyages. In a compelling narrative structured as one trip to the moon, Harry Hurt recounts all the drama and danger of the lunar voyages, from the anxiety of the astronauts’ prelaunch procedures through the euphoria of touchdown on the lunar surface.

Updated with a new introduction by the author for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, For All Mankind is both an extraordinary adventure story and an important historical document.
 
“Hurt’s timely book is like an instant replay of the dramatic moon flight years . . . Hurt tells us of the hardships and the successes of the Apollo program, the remarkable journey to the moon, of the astronauts and technicians who made it possible and the goals of the nation in space.”—Houston Chronicle 
“The meat here lies in the lunar voyage itself, an irresistible mix of danger, courage, tedium, and spectacle, evoked with unprecedented detail by those who went there.”—Kirkus Reviews

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802147509
Publisher:	Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date:	05/14/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	804,462
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

HARRY HURT III is an award-winning journalist and the author of six nonfiction books. He lives in Miami Beach, Florida.

Table of Contents

Prologue: For All Mankind ix

Introduction xv

Stage 1 Go for the Moon 1

1 This Time Is for Real 3

2 Man and the Moon 27

3 It Feels Just Like It Sounds 37

4 The Space Race 63

5 Slipping the Surly Bonds 76

6 Chariots of Fire 102

7 Life in Zero G 135

8 Hello, Moon 163

Stage 2 Men Walk on Moon 187

9 A Giant Leap 189

10 Snoopy and the Surveyor 240

11 Unlucky Thirteen 260

12 The Moon Shot Never to Be Forgot 282

13 The Moon Rovers 300

Stage 3 Return to Earth 327

14 The Secret Terror of Saying Good-Bye 329

15 Instant Celebrities 346

16 The Melancholy of All Things Done 368

17 The $40 Billion Bargain 384

Stage 4 2001 and Beyond 401

18 Star Wars or Peace? 403

Epilogue: The Message of Apollo 415

Glossary of Acronyms 423

Diagrams of Spacecraft 425

Project Apollo Flight Log 428

Chapter Notes 433

Acknowledgments 443

Interviews

For All Mankind was originally published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1988 to rave reviews. Drawing on extensive research and over 90 hours of exclusive interviews with the first astronauts to travel to the moon, it was the first book to provide an in-depth retelling of the early lunar voyages.

This reissue will be published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing, and is sure to gain media and review coverage along with several other books on the subject to be reissued for this milestone.

Hurt has written a new introduction for this 50th anniversary edition.

Harry Hurt III is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in Newsweek, Texas Monthly, Esquire, Playboy, and Vanity Fair, among other publications.

Hurt has written six other books, including Lost Tycoon, an unauthorized biography of Donald Trump originally published in 1993, but of which Janet Maslin recently called "a prescient account of Trump’s business ethics, calculated manipulation of his inner circle, flair for fact-free hyperbole and nascent political ambitions at a time when anyone who knew him thought he was joking." (New York Times).