Tom Hanks Reads His Tale of Going to the Moon

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<p><span>In 2014, </span><span>Tom Hanks—the star of “Apollo 13,” among many other accomplishments—wrote a short story about going to the moon.  But his was not a dramatic story of NASA heroes facing grave danger. Hanks told the tale of a very twenty-first century mission, executed D.I.Y. style, with four misfits in a space capsule run off an iPad and held together with duct tape.  The story, “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/27/alan-bean-plus-four"><span>Alan Bean Plus Four</span></a><span>,” was published in </span><i><span>The New Yorker</span></i><span> in 2014.  Hanks originally read the story for the New Yorker’s </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-authors-voice"><span>Writer’s Voice</span></a><span> podcast.  </span></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>