Category: graphic non-fiction
Review: This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of spaceflight. Those who are already well-read may not learn much that’s new, but even if you already know it all, you’ll be drawn in by the visuals. Fetter-Vorn’s illustrations are first-rate, clearly showing the expressions on the faces of his characters. The best is their wonder at the stars and the universe, whether studying it through a telescope, or through the window of a spacecraft. If you’re looking for an introduction or an overview, you can’t ask for much more than this.
Yes, Fetter-Vorn tells the familiar story of Apollo 11, but interspersed with the chapters that walk us through the moon landing step by step are chapters that relate the history of astronomy from the early myths of different cultures to Kepler and Galileo, the development of rockets, the space race, and much more. The reader gets not just what feels like an insider’s view of the Apollo 11 mission, but a good education that goes down smoothly along the way.