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    The Books Briefing: One Small Step That Opened a Lifetime of Wonder

    One giant leap for literature: Your weekly guide to the best in books
    by Myles Poydras Jul 19, 2019 2 minutes
    Source: China Stringer Network / Reuters

    This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11moon landing, which revealed a new visual perspective of humans’ home planet, set in the deep suspension of a newly documented outer space. The fiction writerDon DeLillo incorporated that image into a short story, in which one character aboard an orbiting space station becomes transfixed byastronaut Chris Hadfield took thousands of photographsduring his own, real-lifeorbit, which he published in a book for people who may never get to enjoy the same view.

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