To the Moon and Back chapter sampler

A Note to This Edition

Fifteen years ago, my wife Jackie and I wrote this book to explain the (mostly) ignored but vital role that Australia had played in humanity’s journey to the Moon. Back then, it seemed as if our dreams of journeying, not just to the Moon but beyond, had been lost when Apollo 18 remained on the ground and the Apollo program was brought abruptly to an end, leaving only footprints, some rubbish and flags upon the Moon. No human foot has touched the Moon’s surface since Apollo 17 . Our new ‘space age’ is primarily commercial, not soaring upwards for knowledge or just to say ‘we were there’. Yet, the daily fabric of our lives has been forever changed by the unintentional advances made during those heady days of invention and adventure. Now in 2019, it is 50 years since that first footprint was left in the moon dust. Those 50 years have gone

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