Armstrong, first man on the moon and one 

 of the best and brightest of the "galvanized 

 geologists," according to Wilhelms; Dave 

 Scott, a test pilot who went bonkers for ge- 

 ology and turned in a stellar scientific per- 

 formance as commander of the first of the 

 complex "J-missions," the enhanced 

 Apollo science missions; and Harrison 

 "Jack" Schmitt, the only professional ge- 

 ologist to go to the moon, who got the 

 chance that Gene Shoemaker missed — to 

 swing his rock hammer on the boulders of 

 the Taurus-Littrow Valley. 



The story concludes with Wilhelms's 

 chapter describing what we have learned 

 in the years separating us from the Apollo 

 missions. That this can be adequately done 

 in 20 pages (out of nearly 500 for the 

 whole book) is no testament to laziness on 

 Wilhelms's part, but rather a reflection of 

 the pitiable state of lunar exploration dur- 

 ing the last twenty years. America has not 

 sent a mission to the moon since Apollo 1 7 

 in December 1972, and the Russians have 

 not done so since August of 1976. 



If all goes well, we may see some new 

 lunar data in our lifetimes as the joint De- 

 fense Department-NASA mission called 

 Clementine, scheduled to be launched in 

 January 1994, will map the distribution of 

 minerals over the entire moon during the 

 course of a two-month period. But this 

 new robotic mission will not be followed 

 by a marmed mission — or even any addi- 

 tional robotic probes — in the foreseeable 

 future. In 1989, then president George 

 Bush's attempt to reestablish direction and 

 purpose for our space program by caUing 

 for a return to the moon floundered, and 

 then sank, in a sea of media carping, con- 

 gressional blundering, and parochial 

 whining from the scientific community. 



Don Wilhelms has written the definitive 

 history of the scientific exploration of the 

 moon. Its lively and entertaining text in- 

 forms and stimulates, but there are some 

 slight flaws. The illustrations are not re- 

 produced very well, and the place map of 

 lunar localities used as the frontispiece is 

 quite useless as the guide to craters and 

 maria that it was meant to be. However, 

 don't let these minor problems dissuade 

 you from reading this book; from enjoying 

 and savoring a distant time when America 

 was confident, looked forward to the fu- 

 ture, and did not shrink from challenge. 



Paul D. Spudis, a staff scientist at the 

 Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, 

 Texas, is deputy leader of the science team 

 for the Clementine moon mission, to be 

 launched in January 1994. 



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