I’m into history and current events of a non political bent. I read Mercury Rising about Glenn’s flight. I had read almost everything on Mercury at that point and still learned some things. Now I am reading about Apollo 8 which really saved the moon program and technically represented our first adventure to the moon. A very ambitious flight at the time considering the state of the program and timing with regard to kennedys deadline. They leapfrogged several objectives and used a rocket that had not yet been successful. What’s amazing about the famous earth rise photo is when you consider that the photo of earth represents some remnant of every human that ever existed, even if a speck of dust, except for the 3 men behind the camera who are in lunar orbit.