"On July 20, 1969, Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin overshot their planned landing point and nearly ran out of fuel as they dodged boulders and false alarms from their computerized dashboard, looking for a place to come down. They made it with 17 seconds to spare. That night the Soviets’ unmanned Luna 15 spacecraft, which they hoped would scoop up rock samples and beat Apollo 11 home, crash-landed into another part of the moon, while the two Americans, having completed their walk around Tranquility Base, slept in the lunar module."
As the fortieth anniversary of the first moon landing approaches, Thomas Mallon reviews Craig Nelson's Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon and Andrew Chaikin with Victoria Kohl's Voices from the Moon: Apollo Astronauts Describe Their Lunar Experiences in The New York Times.
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