Moondust - Smith, Andrew
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In time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing comes this edition of journalist Andrew Smith's Moondust, now updated with a new Afterword, that tells the fascinating story of twelve astronauts who ventured to space, and his interviews with nine of the surviving men. The Apollo lunar missions of the 1960s and 1970s have been called the last optimistic acts of the twentieth century. Twelve astronauts made this greatest of all journeys and were indelibly marked by it, for better or for worse. Journalist Andrew Smith tracks down the nine surviving members of this elite group to…mehr

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In time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing comes this edition of journalist Andrew Smith's Moondust, now updated with a new Afterword, that tells the fascinating story of twelve astronauts who ventured to space, and his interviews with nine of the surviving men. The Apollo lunar missions of the 1960s and 1970s have been called the last optimistic acts of the twentieth century. Twelve astronauts made this greatest of all journeys and were indelibly marked by it, for better or for worse. Journalist Andrew Smith tracks down the nine surviving members of this elite group to find their answers to the question "Where do you go after you've been to the Moon?" A thrilling blend of history, reportage, and memoir, Moondust rekindles the hopeful excitement of an incandescent hour in America's past when anything seemed possible as it captures the bittersweet heroism of those who risked everything to hurl themselves out of the known world--and who were never again quite able to accept its familiar bounds.
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Andrew T. Smith, now a Professor Emeritus, served on the faculty of the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University for 39 years. He was chosen as Professor of the Year by the Parent's Association in 2006 and awarded the rank of President's Professor in 2010. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences awarded Smith the Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award in 2016.Smith is a conservation biologist whose work includes the behavioral ecology of mammals, effects of habitat fragmentation, and ecosystem services provided by small mammals. He primarily works in the mountains of western United States and on the Tibetan plateau. His research focuses on the pika, a small relative of rabbits. He is an avowed field biologist who is proud to have not conducted any lab bench work in his long career.Smith is involved in global conservation issues and served as Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Lagomorph Specialist Group from 1991 - 2021. He has also advised the Chinese government on issues concerning biodiversity (Biodiversity Working Group of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development). The American Society of Mammalogists chose Smith as recipient of its 2015 Aldo Leopold Conservation Award. In addition to publishing ~130 papers, his A Guide to the Mammals of China (Princeton University Press; 2008) was the first comprehensive treatment of the 556 mammal species found in China (also available in Chinese - Hunan Education Publishing House: Changsha, Hunan, China; 2009). Smith has also produced Mammals of China (Princeton University Press Pocket Guide; 2013) and Lagomorphs: Pikas, Rabbits, and Hares of the World (Johns Hopkins University Press; 2013). He teamed with his wife, Harriet, to write The Astonishing, Astounding, Amazing Sonoran Desert (Dockside Sailing Press; 2019, Second Edition - Publish Authority, 2021)