In time for the 50th anniversary from the Apollo 11 Moon landing comes this edition of journalist Andrew Smith’s book, now up to date with a new Afterword, that tells the fascinating story of twelve astronauts who ventured to space, and his interviews with nine from the surviving men.

“Smith’s publication succeeds…because he bungee-cords together so many intriguing digressions.”-New York Times

The Apollo lunar missions from the 1960s and 1970s have already been called the final optimistic acts of the twentieth about Moondust: In Search of the Males Who Fell to Earth century. Twelve astronauts made this greatest of all journeys and had been indelibly marked by it, for better or for worse. Journalist Andrew Smith paths down the nine surviving members of the top notch group to find their answers to the query ‘Where do you go after you’ve gone to the Moon?’

A thrilling blend of history, reportage, and memoir, Moondust rekindles the hopeful pleasure of an incandescent hour in America’s history when anything seemed possible as it catches the bittersweet heroism of these who risked everything to hurl themselves from the known world-and who had been never again quite able to accept its familiar bounds.