Lunar Exploration - Human Pioneers and Robotic Suveyors (Springer Praxis Books in Astronomy and Space Science) (2004. 300 p. w. 120 figs.)

Paolo Ulivi provides a well-paced, rapidly moving, balanced, even-handed account of lunar exploration as a popular history. Uniquely drawing on recently declassified documents, detail of Chinese lunar exploration projects is provided, as well as nuclear lunar weapons of the '50s developed by the super powers, Soviet Russia and the United States.