What Do You Give To The Man Who Has Everything?

 

     People in the space business are familiar with a 65-year-old man named Andrew L. Chaikan. He graduated from the Ivy League Brown University with a BS in Geology. He got lucky and picked up a NASA internship. He was assigned to work on the Viking 1 and Viking 2 landers that went to Mars. He fell in love with space! His logical progression would have been a Ph.D. in Geology. He would have become a planetary scientist.

   Andrew decided on a different course in life. He decided to become a space historian. He picked up some powerful allies and supporters along the way including the actor Tom Hanks. The 13-part miniseries From The Earth To The Moon was his creation. He has written numerous books on space. One incredible book was brought to my attention thanks to The Planetary Society.

         NASA and the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum have hundreds of thousands of photos taken during the time of the Apollo missions. Many photos were deteriorating and in a rough state. Andrew got approval to take all these photos and carefully process them using LightRoom and PhotoShop. His goal was to create a historical record that would remain long after we are gone. Elena works for hours each day on her photos of the last 20 years. I understand what Andrew went through. It truly was "a labor of love."

    The result of all this hard work and devotion is a two-volume book set titled: A Man on the Moon.

 

https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/a-man-on-the-moon.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwo4mIBhBsEiwAKgzXOM0NizCXfw9A2-Wm5_G7feSSNLWuddkXETLqo5-ZftadV6IpzEXPgRoCb4EQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

      You cannot find this on Amazon. One specialist publisher of high-end books sells it-The Folio Society.

    I chose this as my birthday gift from all of you! ("What do you give to the man who has everything?)