NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Perfect for Father\'s Day: the riveting inside story of three heroic Astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind\'s historic First mission to the Moon, from the bestselling author of Shadow Divers.
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Praise for Rocket Men "In 1968 we sent men to the Moon.
In this real-life thriller, Kurson reveals the epic dangers involved, and the singular bravery it took, for mankind to leave Earth for the First time--and arrive at a new world.
Drawn from hundreds of hours of one-on-one interviews with the astronauts, their loved ones, NASA personnel, and myriad experts, and filled with vivid and unforgettable detail, Rocket Men is the definitive account of one of America\'s finest hours.
In this gripping insider account, Robert Kurson puts the focus on the three Astronauts and their families: the commander, Frank Borman, a conflicted man on his final mission; idealistic Jim Lovell, who\'d dreamed since boyhood of riding a Rocket to the Moon; and Bill Anders, a young nuclear engineer and hotshot fighter pilot making his First space flight.
In a year of historic violence and discord--the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago--the Apollo 8 mission would be the boldest, riskiest test of America\'s greatness under pressure.
And it would all happen at Christmas.
With its back against the wall, NASA Made an almost unimaginable leap: It would scrap its usual methodical approach and risk everything on a sudden launch, sending the First men in history to the Moon--in just four months. "Robert Kurson tells the tale of Apollo 8 with novelistic detail and immediacy."--Andy Weir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian and Artemis By August 1968, the American space program was in danger of failing in its two most important objectives: to land a man on the Moon by President Kennedy\'s end-of-decade deadline, and to triumph over the Soviets in space.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Perfect for Father\'s Day: the riveting inside story of three heroic Astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind\'s historic First mission to the Moon, from the bestselling author of Shadow Divers
