The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon is a memoir by Todd Zwillich. He is a freelance reported and writer based in Washington. He has covered different domains in his reporting, which mainly are health care policy and politics, and science. The audio narration of The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon is done by Todd Zwillich and Angelo Di Loreto. The performance was just fine but the background music was constantly played which suppressed the voice of the narrators.
John C. Houbolt was a mid-level engineer working at NASA. Without his great support and input, Apollo 11 would have never succeeded in having a flight to the moon. Many of the top-tier engineers on the Apollo 11 project strongly advocated having one huge spacecraft for making the flight to the moon. They thought that one spacecraft would be enough to make the flight to man, land there and get back to the planet Earth. Those engineers include Werner Von Braun as well. It was also the scenario that was used in the horror movies and cartoons of the 1950s while traveling to outer space.
Houbolt gave the idea of Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR). It was something that could link a couple of spacecraft in orbit while those would be traveling at the speed of 3,600 miles per hour around the moon. His plan was initially ridiculed and considered to be impossible and unthinkable. But eventually, the same plan worked to success and LOR proved to be the best and the only way to success.
The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon is a fantastic story of an unsung hero of Apollo 11. His name was John C. Houbolt and he was the one who showed NASA how America could be put on the moon.
