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Media, NASA, and America's Quest for the Moon
Harlen Makemson
Peter Lang Publishing
May 2009
On Sale: May 1, 2009
272 pages ISBN: 1433103001 EAN: 9781433103001 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
When Apollo 11 landed on the moon in July 1969, it capped
not only the most remarkable engineering feat in history,
but also a decade-long battle over how much access the press
and public should have to the manned space program. Now,
forty years after an awed world watched Neil Armstrong and
Buzz Aldrin bounce across the surface of the moon, this book
tells the behind-the-scenes story of how NASA and the U.S.
media were often at odds, but ultimately showed
extraordinary cooperation in bringing the story of lunar
conquest to the world. Drawing upon rich historical sources
from NASA, journalists, and television networks, this book
sheds new light on how media shaped how we saw America's
great adventure in space, and raises contemporary questions
about the role of information in a free society.
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