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Best of the Moon 2007

Thank you to Ken who pointed me to Out of the Cradle's look back at the Best of the Moon 2007:

While the mainstream is focused on continuing to look backwards at Apollo, with several documentaries and a number of books now gracing the shelves of major bookstores, out in the margins, on the creative fringe, there are appearing any number of new and different ways of looking at our Moon, and many of the winners this year reflect the need for forward-looking thinking. So without further ado lets get some of the miscellaneous categories in the Lunar Library out of the way before getting to the main event - the Best of the Moon 2007.

New biographies of the first Americans in space, first man on the moon - Houston Chronicle
George Bush recently announced a plan to send people to Mars, a lame election-year feint that sought to recover some of the patriotic unity that suffused the early years of the American space program. The biographies of two star astronauts, Alan Shepard and Neil Armstrong -- the first American in space and first man on the moon, respectively -- remind us of how the proper blend of bleeding-edge technology and political rhetoric can not only unify but inspire a nation.