Men on the Moon

In this post I present my book "Men on the Moon".

You can download the English version (as PDF) for free here:       Click here to download.

Don't hesitate to drop me a line, if you have any comments or interest in this project. (Please find my email-address at page two in the PDF version).

By Christmas 2018 the world started celebrating the series of 50-year anniversaries for the American voyages to the Moon during the Apollo project 1968-1972.

"Men on the Moon" tells this story, with a foreword by Apollo 16 Astronaut, Brigadier General Charlie Duke - the 10th and youngest man to walk on the Moon.

Apart from being "yet another book" on the space race and the Apollo-project, "Men on the Moon" is also a Christian book.

"Men on the Moon" builds the case for a Christian re-appropriation of this the "greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked", and is evidence of the good-natured strength that Christian-conservative values offer to mankind. 

The book got a fine 4 out of 6 stars review in the Danish Christian daily newspaper "Kristeligt Dagblad".

Men on the Moon. Published in Danish 2016.

It was evaluated by the auditors at the Danish libraries, and selected for acquisition, and is now available at the Danish libraries.

The Christian angle on the Apollo-project is a key unique element of "Men on the Moon". The book has gathered an unseen collection of testimonies of the application of Christian faith, and of events that many people describe as interventions of God.

Currently I am looking for an agent to work with the English translation for the American market. Anyone interested can look at the Book Proposal here.

As earlier mentioned, Apollo 16 astronaut, Charles M. Duke, a well-known proponent of the good word kindly obliged to write a foreword for the English edition:

What you are about to read is the true story of "the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.". These were the appropriate and strong words that President Kennedy used in 1961, when he set the goal for the American people of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth, before the end of that decade.

As astronaut and Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 16 mission, I was privileged to take part in that great adventure. I was one of the twelve men that actually got to walk on the Moon and - evidently - was also returned safely to the Earth, as promised by the President.

The American people fulfilled this audacious goal by the hard work, skills and strong spirits of hundreds of thousands of good people - and not least, as I sincerely believe, by the grace of the good Lord.

So, why did the President want us to go to the Moon? How did we do it? And what did God and Christian faith have to do with this anyway? This book gives a sober, read-worthy and surprising set of answers to these questions, based on the historical account of events, and the testimonies of a great variety of people connected to the Space Race and the Apollo project, many of them my good friends and former colleagues.

I hope and pray, that you will find "Men on the Moon" as intriguing and strengthening of faith as I did.

Blessings,
Charlie Duke

"My walk on the Moon lasted 3 days and it was a great adventure. But my walk with God lasts - forever!" (Charlie Duke)

"Since it is so likely that our children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker." (C. S. Lewis)