Book reading

Have just finished another book that I have been looking for, in fact I first heard about this book some 20 years ago but never managed to get a copy.

In fact for some reason I never even went to the library and requested it, even though it was a book that I had wanted to read.

The book was just reprinted as a special 40th year anniversary edition!

The book is call Carrying the fire and is by Michael Collins, now people of a certain age might know who he is but I can tell you that both my children had never heard of him.

He was the Command Module pilot of the Apollo 11, yes that's right, he was the chap who went all the way to the Moon and then went round it on his own while Aldrin and that Armstrong went and walked on the Moon.

Its a book I think of it's time in that it was written just a few years after Apollo 11 had landed and in fact after the Apollo flights had been cancelled.

I found it a good read in that to me Collins is one of the more forgotten astronauts, saying that, of the 12 men how walked on the Moon I would struggle to name them all, and I have an interest in space and that sort of stuff.

One thing that the book does not discuss is just how close to things going wrong was the whole Apollo missions, I think mainly because the book was written so close to the events it talks about.

So if you want to learn a bit about one of the more forgotten men from the man landings on the Moon this is a good book to read.