NEW YORK Occasions BESTSELLER • The riveting inside tale of three heroic astronauts who took on the task of mankind’s historic 1st mission towards the Moon, from the bestselling writer of Shadow Divers.

“Robert Kurson tells the tale of Apollo 8 with novelistic detail and immediacy.”-Andy Weir, #1 New York Times bestselling writer of The Martian and Artemis

By August 1968, the American space program was in danger of faltering in its two most important goals: to property a man on about Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 as well as the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey towards the Moon the Moon by President Kennedy’s end-of-decade deadline, also to triumph over the Soviets in space. With its back against the wall, NASA produced an almost unimaginable jump: It could scrap its usual methodical approach and risk everything on a sudden release, sending the 1st men in history towards the Moon-in simply four weeks. And it would all happen at Xmas.

In a yr of historic assault 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 will be the boldest, riskiest test of America’s greatness under great pressure. With this gripping insider accounts, Robert Kurson puts the concentrate on the three astronauts and their families: the commander, Frank Borman, a conflicted guy on his final objective; idealistic Jim Lovell, who’d imagined since boyhood of riding a rocket towards the Moon; and Bill Anders, a nuclear engineer and hotshot fighter pilot making his initial space flight.

Drawn from thousands of hours of one-on-one interviews with the astronauts, their loved ones, NASA staff, and myriad professionals, and filled up with brilliant and unforgettable detail, Rocket Men may be the definitive accounts of one of America’s finest hours. In this real-life thriller, Kurson reveals the epic risks involved, and the singular bravery it got, for mankind to leave Globe for the initial time-and arrive at a new globe.

“Rocket Men is a riveting intro to the [Apollo 8] flight . . Kurson information the objective in sharp, suspenseful moments. . . . [A] gripping reserve.”-The New York Times Book Review