When Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon July 20, 1969 the world's attention was hard-focused on the mission and the achievements of NASA.40 years later, two authors look back at the engineers and explorers who took part in the crowning achievement of the space age.
Andrew Chaikin, the foremost Apollo scholar and author of MAN ON THE MOON and FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, talks about the incredible danger involved in the missions...
LISTEN: HISTORIAN ANDREW CHAIKIN
Award-winning author Craig Nelson discusses the deeply private man who first set foot on the moon. Nelson's new book ROCKET MEN, tells the personal story of Neil Armstrong and the other Apollo 11 astronauts...
LISTEN: "ROCKET MEN" AUTHOR CRAIG NELSON
