Back to the Moon, Travis S. Taylor
Back to the Moon, Travis S. Taylor
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Back to the Moon

Author: Travis S. Taylor, Les Johnson

Narrator: Derek Shoales

Unabridged: 9 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/28/2020


Synopsis

THE SECOND TIME AROUND—IS HARDER . . .

Decades after the last footprints were left on the Moon, the US was preparing to return to the Lunar surface in a new class of rockets, when the mission suddenly became much more urgent. It would have to be a rescue mission.

Unbeknownst to the rest of the world China had sent its own Lunar expedition. A manned expedition. Until a distress call was received, no human outside of China even knew that the mission was manned—or that their ship had crash-landed and couldn't take off again.
Time was running out, and if the four Chinese astronauts were to be rescued, the American lunar mission would have to launch immediately, with only a skeleton crew. Once the heroic US astronauts were underway the army of engineers and scientists back home had the daunting task of deciding what equipment could be left on the Moon to permit the Lunar lander vehicle vehicle to lift safely from the Moon with the two US astronauts and the four stranded Chinese taikonauts! Could the US mount such a mission successfully—and would thousands of years of instilled honor "allow" the Chinese astronauts to accept a rescue?

About Travis S. Taylor

Travis S. Taylor is the cocreator and star of the National Geographic Channel's hit series Rocket City Rednecks. Taylor is a physicist who has worked on various programs for the Department of Defense and NASA for the past twenty years. His expertise includes advanced propulsion concepts, very large space telescopes, space based beamed energy systems, future combat technologies, and next generation space launch concepts. His books include the Tau Ceti Agenda series and the Warp Speed series.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Barry

This book is an account of a near future return to the moon, in which a private mission from the US, and government missions from the US and China, all reach the Moon within a short time of each other. Having grown up during the Apollo era I have a soft spot for stories about trips to the Moon, so I'......more

Goodreads review by Steve

Not half bad. Far better written than his Tau Ceti books. He did have a little bit of ax grinding to do about NASA, but really, for the most point he kept that to the afterword. And even there he didn't pick on NASA as much as he did the politicians involved--probably with justification.......more

Goodreads review by Scott

Space is dangerous but worth the effort SPACE travel is dangerous but worth the risk.......more