Across the Airless Wilds
by Earl Swift · first published 2021
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…DNA discovery. 7. Stress Test by Tim Geithner - Financial crisis. 8. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl - Concentration camp survival. 9. The Chariots of Apollo - NASA's space program. 10. Across the Airless Wilds by Earl Swift - Development of the moon buggy. 11. Apollo: The Race to the Moon by Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox - Apollo missions. 12. The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr - Food supply…
on “Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things” ↗“Across The Airless Wilds” by Eric Swift. Tells the story of how the moon buggy came to be and how it was contracted and built in 18 months. Fascinating deep dive into what it actually took to make that work on the moon. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/across-the-airless-wi...…
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