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Article: Apollo Moon Missions: The Unsung Heroes.(Book review)
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- Air Power History
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- December 22, 2008
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Apollo Moon Missions: The Unsung Heroes. By Billy Watkins. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Maps. Tables. Illustrations. Photographs. Notes. Appendix. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xxiv, 202. $17.95 paperback ISBN: 08032-6041-2.
Most books about Apollo focus on a small number of individuals. But beyond the astronauts, engineers, and NASA executives who were the public face of the program, Apollo was a vast undertaking that, at its peak, involved over 400,000 people. Watkins acted upon an idea from Apollo 16 astronaut John Young, who suggested that a book be written about some of the less-well-known people who helped get the astronauts to the Moon ...