Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight

　　透過全彩圖像敘事，精彩而生動地重現阿波羅計劃11號登月50週年的點滴



　　1969年7月20日，是人類全體值得記憶的一天。在這天，人首次親自踏上另外一個星球的表面，讓千年隱身於古老神話、想像，寓居了神明與魔法的月亮，成為真實的所在，一個被造訪的目的地。



　　在繪者Jonathan Fetter-Vorm筆下，我們先墜入了緊張刺激的登月現場，承著登月艇準被著陸──上頭坐著的是歷史上首次涉足月球的兩位太空人：Neil Armstrong與Buzz Aldrin──由之故事朝向另一軸線展開，引領讀者重新品味人們對太空的沉迷嚮往，從伽利略以詳盡的語彙試著記下觀察月球的微微變化、到納粹爾後蘇聯時代的一連串飛向宇宙實驗，直至重回Neil Armstrong與Buzz Aldrin漫步月球的歷史時刻。然而故事並不僅只於此，人們對太空的好奇並未停歇，繪者也為我們帶來了最新的太空發展，國際太空站的建置、前往宇宙深處的太空探測器，和最新的商業太空發展，像是Elon Musk與他充滿遠大夢想的SpaceX。



　　人類登月的歷史是眾人熟悉不過的段落，而在這值得記憶與讚頌的50週年，Jonathan Fetter-Vorm以其獨特的方式讓讀者重溫這一段重要的歷史，更提供回觀與展望的豐富脈絡，富饒教育內容更充滿趣味！（文/博客來編譯）

On a summer night in 1969, two men climbed down a ladder onto a sea of dust at the edge of an ancient dream. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on lunar soil, the moon ceased to be a place of mystery and myth. It became a destination.

Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of that journey, Moonbound tells the monumental story of the moon and the men who went there first. With vibrant images and meticulous attention to detail, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm conjures the long history of the visionaries, stargazers, builders, and adventurers who sent Apollo 11 on its legendary voyage.

From the wisdom of the Babylonians to the intrigues of the Cold War, from the otherworldly discoveries of Galileo to the dark legacy of Nazi atrocities, from the exhilarating trajectories of astronauts--recounted in their own words--to the unsung brilliance of engineers working behind the scenes, Moonbound captures the grand arc of the Space Age in a graphic history of unprecedented scope and profound lyricism.

Author

　　Jonathan Fetter-Vorm is an author and illustrator. His first book, Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb, was selected by the American Library Association as a Great Graphic Novel for Teens in 2013. His Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War, coauthored with the historian Ari Kelman, was published in May 2015. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, and Guernica. Fetter-Vorm lives with his wife in Montana.