Man on the Moon: a day in the life of Bob

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This book is all about a mans daily routines and his travels to the moon. It allows the children to think about the times of the days and routines that they may follow in their day. A thrilling book,a great adventure. Andrew Chaikin brings the astronauts to life. What is essentially a dry subject,becomes first rate entertainment. He is also the author of Air and Space: The National Air and Space Museum Story of Flight, published in 1997 by Bulfinch Press. Chaikin's illustrated narrative of space exploration, SPACE: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs, was published in 2002 by Carlton Books. He co-authored the text for the highly successful collection of Apollo photography, Full Moon, which was published by Knopf in 1999.

Using the idea of the gift shop on the moon, as is shown, to help with addition and subtraction, use of money etc. A great space book looking at, as the title suggests, a day in the life of Bob. I really enjoyed the style of this book as it was told in 3rd person, present tense. It gives a different perspective and you feel as if you are a fly-on-the-wall in Bob's day. Perhaps I am a little biased, though. As an expatriate Yankee, one who is shamed and saddened by much of what my country has done, the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions are one of the few things my country did in the Twentieth Century (and so far in the Twenty-First) for which I am actually proud. Spaceman Bob embarks on new space adventures with a disappearing moon, a movie career, clone chaos, a right royal disaster and some heartless robots in this anthology.Award-winning science journalist and space historian Andrew Chaikin has authored books and articles about space exploration and astronomy for more than 25 years. Writer-director and explorer James Cameron (Titanic, Aliens of the Deep) called him “our best historian of the space age.” Finally,Gene Cernan who commanded Apollo 17,became the last man to stop on the moon.The last three moon missions,Apollo 18,19 and 20 were scrapped,given their enormous cost.

This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( August 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Andrew Chaikin does an exceptional job of recounting the Apollo missions, ensuring that it is not all about Neil, Buzz and "What's-his-name?" (Michael Collins, for anyone who's interested).Indeed, the most appealing aspect of A Man on the Moon is how Chaikin puts a face on the missions and men that are far from famous, from the other astronauts to the mission controllers and even those people involved in the design and manufacture of the space crafts. The story is told in third person which allows the reader to feel that they are following Bob closely, allowing them to warm to the character, making him likeable. The story is set in the style of “a day in the life” and uses time to show this. This technique makes it easy for children to follow as it allows them to relate it to their day to day life, such as getting up and having breakfast and having a bath before going to bed. A book that goes very deep into the astronauts' experiences. The focus is on the astronauts and on the Apollo flights. There's not much information about the previous Gemini or Mercury programs and even the progress of Apollo program is only lightly covered between Apollo 1 and 8. There are plenty of technical jargon and talk about things like mascons and breccias but it's only through the pilots and flights why they're covered. Major players of ground crew get some exposure but one might want to have some previous knowledge of the whole space adventure before diving into this book. Even the movie Apollo 13 might be enough to get the idea what's happening. Even though I'm quite familiar of the whole Saturn V and the phases of the flight, I still missed some sort of technical pictures to make it more clear. The First Men in the Moon, Ch. 19. The unnamed narrator of The War of the Worlds experiences a similar sense of self-alienation.