Moonfire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 - Hardcover

Per commemorare lo storico atterraggio dell Apollo 11 sulla Luna, Taschen ha corredato il testo di Norman Mailer con una serie di foto spettacolari prese dall'archivio della Nasa e della rivista Life. È riuscita così a realizzare un tributo unico alla missione scientifica più importante del nostro tempo. La tiratura è limitata a 1969 copie ed è accompagnata da una stampa fotografica firmata dall'austronauta Buzz Aldrin.

Norman Mailer was one of the 20th century's greatest and most influential writers, as well as one of America's most renowned and controversial literary figures. The best-selling author of a dozen novels and 20 works of nonfiction, he also wrote stage plays, screenplays, television miniseries, hundreds of essays, two books of poetry, and a collection of short stories. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he lived in Brooklyn, New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. Buzz Aldrin made history as one of the first men to walk on the Moon. A graduate of West Point, he earned his Sc.D. in Astronautics from MIT before joining NASA, and the Gemini XII and Apollo 11 missions. He is the founder of the ShareSpace Foundation and author of several books. Colum McCann is the author of seven books, including Let the Great World Spin. He has written for The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, GQ, The Times (London), The Irish Times, and La Republica.