Originally published in 1988, an extraordinary, dramatic history of the first voyages to the moon - newly updated for the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11

Recounts the history of the silicon disc which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission, and displays the messages from the

“Thoroughly engrossing . . . a spirited, suspenseful, economically told tale whose significance is manifest and whose pace never flags.” —The Wall Street

In the years between the historic first moon landing by Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969, and his death at age 82 on August 25, 2012, Neil Armstrong received hundreds

It takes more than 10 billion years to create just the right conditions on one planet for life to begin. It takes another three billion years of evolving life f