What did you expect?
Steven Shapin: The banality of moon-talk, 1 September 2005
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
by Andrew Smith.
Bloomsbury, 308 pp., £17.99, April 2005,0 7475 6368 3 Show More
by Andrew Smith.
Bloomsbury, 308 pp., £17.99, April 2005,
“... A British astronaut would have stuck in a flag and said: “I name this moon Elizabeth.”’ And Michael Collins – the Apollo 11 astronaut left behind orbiting in the command module – was the first of several Apollonians who suggested eventually sending a ‘priest, poet or philosopher’: ‘From these people you might get a much better feeling of what ... ”