Back to the Moon Back to the Moon Back to the Moon is a science fiction novel and Homer Hickam's first fictional book. Published in June 1999, Hickam wrote Back to the Moon using insider information he learned from NASA. The prologue of the novel begins with a dramatized account of the second EVA of Apollo 17. Astronaut Jack Schmitt discovers orange soil in Shorty Crater at the very end of the EVA and gathers samples in a race against time to get back to the LEM. Meanwhile, Wernher von Braun is watching the end of the mission on TV with other NASA engineers.
Last Moon of the concept, like his other in "Requiem et Reminiscence" albums, is about the existential questions of humanity. The "Moon Saga" is a symbolic story about the repetition of human sins, war and the question of what is the ultimate meaning of human life. The history of mankind's struggle – the suffering and sorrow in the quest for the virtues and ideas. The tour is titled as "Saigo no Tsuki" ("Last Moon" in English language), but the "saigo" is not written in kanji (last, end) yet which has a nuance of "the final moments" or "dying days", as it is