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Title: First Landing Crashes
Review: Imagine NASA puts together a crew for a Mars mission. 5 People will go. Nasa selects Jerry Falwell, Susan Sontag, Alan Dershowitz, a Texan Geologist from the oil industry, and David Hackworth as commander. Thought NASA (or anyone else) would put more thought into crew selection? Me too.This book follows a trend in similar literature that focuses way too much on personal friction between crew members as the most serious problem in a mission like this. It achieves distinction only in how far the author will go in his stereotyping. From a religious fundamentalist continuously quoting the bible to fellow crew members to a Texan literally yelling Yee-Hah!, to a stiff necked military commander that...doesn't take charge?The shame of it is that the author is an acclaimed astronautical engineer that could have made this a very interesting examination of the latest theories in engineering a voyage such as this.
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