How many people have left their footprints in the dust of the lunar valleys? Ask your friends this question, and you will hear the answer: two... four... And there were 12 of them! And it flew around the Moon 24! Your friends are mistaken because this is largely a political, but still heroic, fundamental event in the history of earthly civilization, and was hushed up by Soviet ideologists in every possible way. To this day, not a single book has been published in our country telling about the American Apollo lunar program. The famous journalist and writer Yaroslav Golovanov wrote the history of Apollo back in the late 70s, but not a single publishing house decided to publish it. This is a fascinating, almost adventure story about the dramatic journeys of earthlings on the Moon. Richly illustrated with rare photographs, the book is addressed to a wide range of readers.

Wernher von Braun (left).

Moon flight diagram.

The first car on the Moon.< /p>

A sample of lunar soil.

Moon rock in the hands of a NASA specialist.

The APOLLO 1 cabin after the fire on January 27, 1967. Virgil Grissom, Edward White, Roger Chaffee.

APOLLO 7 Crew: Walter Cunningham, Donn Eisele, Walter Schirra.

APOLLO 8 Crew: Frank Borman, William Anders, James Lovell.

APOLLO 9 Crew: James McDivitt, Russell Schweickart, David Scott.

APOLLO 10 Crew: Thomas Stafford, John Young, Eugene Cernan.

Crew " APOLLO 11": Michael Collins, Edwin Aldrin, Neil Armstrong.

APOLLO 12 Crew: Richard Gordon, Alan Bean, Charles Conrad.

APOLLO 13 Crew: Fred Hayes , James Lovell, John Sweetheart.

APOLLO 14 Crew: Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, Edgar Mitchell.

APOLLO 15 Crew: James Irwin, Alfred Worden, David Scott .

APOLLO 16 Crew: Charles Duke, Thomas Mattingly, John Young.

APOLLO 17 Crew: Harrison Schmitt, Ronald Evans, Eugene Cernan.

Even the Pope watched the moon landing.