Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race

"A page-turner, a reminder that behind the high technology there was high drama." —The Guardian

"Dave Scott and Alexei Leonov have each borne the enormous responsibility of commanding spacecraft and of representing their respective countries in the most fascinating and most expensive race in human history. This is their transcendent recounting of that competition." — Neil Armstrong

"The lay reader, assuredly, will be left in awe." — Chicago Tribune

With a foreword by Neil Armstrong & introduction by Tom Hanks.

In this unique dual autobiography, Apollo 15 commander David Scott and cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first man to ever walk in space, recount their exceptional lives and careers spent on the cutting edge of science and space exploration, and their participation in the greatest technological race ever - to land a man on the Moon. With each mission fraught with perilous risks, and each space program touched by tragedy, these parallel tales of adventure and heroism read like a modern-day thriller. They reveal, in a very personal way, the drama of one of the most ambitious contests ever embarked on by man, set against the conflict that once held the world in suspense: the clash between communism and Western democracy. Through the men’s memoirs, their courage emerges from their perseverance in times of extraordinary difficulty and danger.