Download PDF The Mission of a Lifetime Lessons from the Men Who Went to the Moon Basil Hero 9781538748510 Books

Product details Hardcover 304 pages Publisher Grand Central Publishing (April 2, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 1538748517

The Mission of a Lifetime Lessons from the Men Who Went to the Moon Basil Hero 9781538748510 Books Reviews

• Growing up, as the author accurately describes, as the elementary school student watching the TV wheeled into our classroom, I joined America in holding its breath. My dad was an RCA engineer who saw it from the inside. I knew I was going to like this book,and I did. It is beautifully written.
  
  I found myself absorbed in the insights, the personal snippets. While they are giants, heroes, they are human beings. They were not always heroic, often all too human. They have insights no one else has.
  
  The author himself is sometimes all too human. He writes wonderfully. In the process of researching this book he obviously gained the trust and respect of his subjects. I couldn't help but wonder occasionally - was I reading the thoughts of these heroes, or of the author who dropped in a quote or to in support.
  
  Be that as it may. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, one of dozens I've read about our space program. It is a wonderful story.
• If you really want to understand and you should, I mean really understand what it means to go into space, to leave Earth orbit, to circle the Moon, to stand on lunar soil you have one best choice read " The Mission of a Lifetime." It was and it is not just the mission of a lifetime for the Apollo astronauts but for all Americans and all humankind. The only difference between the Apollo astronauts and the rest of us is they went there. It is still our story all of us.
  
  What Basil Hero has done for all of us is bring us as close as humanly possible to the experience of the Apollo astronauts. Mr. Hero makes the reader one with them. No need to close your eyes and dream of going to the Moon. With your eyes wide open reading "The Mission of a Lifetime" closing your eyes to dream of going to the Moon is a waste of your time.
  
  The only disappointment you will take away from this book and it is a good one the hunger for us to go back to the Moon and never leave it barren of human presence ever again. We should all thank Basil Hero for what he has accomplished with this remarkable ode to the legendary Apollo astronauts. Read it and you will forever look up at the Moon in the night sky with a sense of awe that will never leave you. Yes it is amazing what one book can accomplish !
• At a time when we’re starved for heroes, “ Mission of a Lifetime” is about heroes from a time when anything seemed possible. Heroes for the ages, the Apollo astronauts. This is destined to be a book for the ages. If you want to re-live and re-learn the values that made this country great, read the aptly-named Basil Hero’s up close and personal account of the 12 remaining men that went to the moon.
  
  The Apollo astronauts personified the true source of courage and conquering fear; the common good and believing in something greater than oneself. Hero gets the reticent astronauts to talk candidly of the stresses on their families; the importance of a clear mission; owning up to mistakes; teamwork and trust. JFK's summoning the national to put a man on the moon within a decade ranks as one of the greatest organizational feats ever. They were the few who saw the earth from the perspective of the moon and saw not 190 nations but victory for all humankind. This well written book will be read for generations. If you want to remember what made America great, read "The Mission of a Lifetime Lessons From The Men Who Went To The Moon".
• Basil Hero has written a superb book on America's great adventure in space -- elegant, evocative, illuminating, and topical in a year we are observing the fiftieth anniversary of landing on the Moon. Understanding the importance of story-telling, Hero seeks out 12 astronauts who went to the Moon and asks them what they saw and what they learned about the Moon, about Earth, about themselves. We may commonly see them as astronauts, even technocrats, given their training and experience, but here they appear at times as philosophers and humanists. They offer us lessons from their past in selflessness, courage, leadership, humility, ambition and excellence, among others, that speak to us today. Most powerfully, they have no time for flag-draped politicians they call "false patriots and self-serving jackasses" and they make a stirring appeal to save our planet from the threat of pollution and global warming. Hero shimmers in casting the Earth as "a cosmic lighthouse", fifty times brighter than the Moon, which, by contrast, is dark, brooding and barren. Seeing both from space gave these mariners of the heavens a unique perspective. As one of them put it, "we went to explore the Moon, but discovered the Earth instead." This theme -- going into space and finding home -- is especially inspiring, one of the many discoveries awaiting us on Hero's wonderful celestial journey.