As a rule, I am wary of Hollywood’s depictions of historical events. They often tinker with the truth, change timelines and the order of events, misrepresent characters and create drama where there was none. Apollo 13 sticks surprisingly close to the truth. The script did change a few details, but they were relatively minor changes. …
A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin
This is an account of the Apollo missions, all the way from the disaster of Apollo 1 to Apollo 17, when the last man to walk on the moon, Gene Cernan, got back in the lunar module with Harrison Schmitt, his lunar module pilot and the first scientist ever to be a member of an …