The Man Who Ran the Moon: James E. Webb, NASA, and the Secret History of Project Apollo - Hardcover

Traces the career of a top NASA chief and the undue accusations of corruption that tainted his reputation after the 1967 grounding of Apollo, in an account that reveals his pivotal role in the nation's triumphant lunar landing and NASA's ongoing success. By the author of The Rivers of Mars.

Over the last decade, Piers Bizony has written about space exploration and cosmology for a wide variety of magazines in the U.S. and U.K., including Focus, Omni, Wired, and The Independent.

Bizony's award-winning book on the making of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey has become a standard reference work for the movie's many fans around the world. In 1997, The Rivers of Mars, his critically acclaimed analysis of the life on Mars debate, was nominated for NASA's Eugene M. Emme Award for Astronautical Writing, while Island in the Sky investigated the politics of the International Space Station. Starman, produced as a book and a BBC film in partnership with TV producer Jamie Doran, told the real story of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's life for the first time.

Bizony is also a creative consultant for science-related public projects, having helped design a planetarium in Poitiers, France, and a science complex in Bristol, England, where he lives.