A Man on the Moon

About the photography

This is the ultimate edition of Andrew Chaikin’s awe-inspiring history, featuring a unique selection of photography with many unpublished or rarely seen images. As well as nearly 200 colour and black-and-white photographs carefully placed within the text, it has glossy full-colour sections – including an eight-page fold-out in each volume – that show the superb images to their best advantage. NASA’s films from the Apollo programme were re-scanned with modern technology in the mid-2000s, delivering images of astonishing clarity. Using these and photographs from his own collection, Chaikin has created each image anew, fixing blemishes and seamlessly crafting new panoramas from multiple shots. By expertly matching each image to the text, he has given us a complete and unrivalled visual and verbal account of the Apollo missions. He writes: ‘The astronauts often said no camera could have captured what they saw, but I hope the images in this edition, combined with the stories of their missions, might get us just a little closer.’

About the photography

This is the ultimate edition of Andrew Chaikin’s awe-inspiring history, featuring a unique selection of photography with many unpublished or rarely seen images. As well as nearly 200 colour and black-and-white photographs carefully placed within the text, it has glossy full-colour sections – including an eight-page fold-out in each volume – that show the superb images to their best advantage. NASA’s films from the Apollo programme were re-scanned with modern technology in the mid-2000s, delivering images of astonishing clarity. Using these and photographs from his own collection, Chaikin has created each image anew, fixing blemishes and seamlessly crafting new panoramas from multiple shots. By expertly matching each image to the text, he has given us a complete and unrivalled visual and verbal account of the Apollo missions. He writes: ‘The astronauts often said no camera could have captured what they saw, but I hope the images in this edition, combined with the stories of their missions, might get us just a little closer.’

About the photography

This is the ultimate edition of Andrew Chaikin’s awe-inspiring history, featuring a unique selection of photography with many unpublished or rarely seen images. As well as nearly 200 colour and black-and-white photographs carefully placed within the text, it has glossy full-colour sections – including an eight-page fold-out in each volume – that show the superb images to their best advantage. NASA’s films from the Apollo programme were re-scanned with modern technology in the mid-2000s, delivering images of astonishing clarity. Using these and photographs from his own collection, Chaikin has created each image anew, fixing blemishes and seamlessly crafting new panoramas from multiple shots. By expertly matching each image to the text, he has given us a complete and unrivalled visual and verbal account of the Apollo missions. He writes: ‘The astronauts often said no camera could have captured what they saw, but I hope the images in this edition, combined with the stories of their missions, might get us just a little closer.’

About the photography

This is the ultimate edition of Andrew Chaikin’s awe-inspiring history, featuring a unique selection of photography with many unpublished or rarely seen images. As well as nearly 200 colour and black-and-white photographs carefully placed within the text, it has glossy full-colour sections – including an eight-page fold-out in each volume – that show the superb images to their best advantage. NASA’s films from the Apollo programme were re-scanned with modern technology in the mid-2000s, delivering images of astonishing clarity. Using these and photographs from his own collection, Chaikin has created each image anew, fixing blemishes and seamlessly crafting new panoramas from multiple shots. By expertly matching each image to the text, he has given us a complete and unrivalled visual and verbal account of the Apollo missions. He writes: ‘The astronauts often said no camera could have captured what they saw, but I hope the images in this edition, combined with the stories of their missions, might get us just a little closer.’

About the photography

This is the ultimate edition of Andrew Chaikin’s awe-inspiring history, featuring a unique selection of photography with many unpublished or rarely seen images. As well as nearly 200 colour and black-and-white photographs carefully placed within the text, it has glossy full-colour sections – including an eight-page fold-out in each volume – that show the superb images to their best advantage. NASA’s films from the Apollo programme were re-scanned with modern technology in the mid-2000s, delivering images of astonishing clarity. Using these and photographs from his own collection, Chaikin has created each image anew, fixing blemishes and seamlessly crafting new panoramas from multiple shots. By expertly matching each image to the text, he has given us a complete and unrivalled visual and verbal account of the Apollo missions. He writes: ‘The astronauts often said no camera could have captured what they saw, but I hope the images in this edition, combined with the stories of their missions, might get us just a little closer.’