Subject: The book is a historic account of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission in 1969, documenting humanity's first steps on the lunar surface.
Author: John Noble Wilford was a Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter for The New York Times who covered the mission.
Content: The book traces the development of America's space program, the selection of the astronauts, and the efforts of the team that achieved the moon landing. It is a contemporary account, largely a collection of New York Times articles about the Apollo program as it was happening.
