Near the end of the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott and fellow moonwalker James Irwin conducted a secret ceremony unsanctioned by NASA: they placed on the lunar soil a small tin figurine called The Fallen Astronaut, along with a plaque bearing a list of names. This book enriches the saga of mankind s greatest scientific undertaking, Project Apollo, and conveys the human cost of the space race by telling the stories of those sixteen astronauts and cosmonauts who died reaching for the moon.Many people are aware of the Apollo launch pad disaster in which three men lost their lives, but few know...