During the nearly twenty years I traded in flown-in-space memorabilia, I had the opportunity to meet almost all of the surviving Apollo Astronauts (ie: those involved in the program to put a human being on the Moon) Over this time I came to know some of them very well, enjoying more than a few glasses of wine and some great conversations: these formed the basis of my first book 'Our Forbidden Moon'.
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Col. Buzz Aldrin, Apollo11 |
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Gen. Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 |
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Capt. Alan Bean, Apollo12 |
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Col. David Scott, Apollo 15 |
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Capt. Dick Gordon, Apollo12 |
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Capt. Ed Mitchell, Apollo14 |
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Capt. Fred Haise, Apollo 13 |
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Capt. Gene Cernan, Apollo 17 |
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Capt. Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 (with one of my lunar meteorites!) |
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Brig. Gen. Jim McDivitt, Apollo 9 |
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Rusty Schweickart. Apollo 9 |
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Gen Tom Stafford, Apollo 10 |
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Col. Walt Cunningham. Apollo 7 |
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Col. Al Worden, Apollo 15 |
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