Monday, July 20, 2009
Norman Mailer materials chronicle Apollo 11’s trip to the moon 40 years ago
Astronaut on the moon with American flag. From NASA photo no. AS11-40-5875
From the Vietnam War to capital punishment, Norman Mailer engaged the important intellectual and social issues of his time. So it should come as no surprise that Mailer chronicled America’s space program and the 1969 journey of Apollo 11 in a three-part article for LIFE Magazine. Portions of the piece ultimately became Mailer’s book “Of a Fire on the Moon” (Little, Brown, 1970).
As Mailer stated in a letter to…
