It is April 1962. The Korean War has escalated and the united states is battling to keep the Russians and Chinese language north of the 38th parallel. All of the men are away fighting, but it doesn’t mean the area Race is lost. NASA decides to look elsewhere for its astronauts: the thirteen women pilots who exceeded the same testing as the original male candidates. They are the Mercury 13: Jerrie Cobb, Janey Hart, Myrtle Cagle, Jerri Sloan, Jan Dietrich, Marion Dietrich, Bernice Steadman, Wally Funk, Sarah Gorelick, about After that Will THE FANTASTIC Ocean Wash Deep Above: Apollo Quartet Publication 3 Gene Nora Stumbough, Jean Hixson, Rhea Hurrle and Irene Leverton. One of these ladies will be the initial American in space. Another would be the initial American to spacewalk. Maybe one will end up being the first individual to walk for the Moon.

Beneath the surface from the Atlantic Ocean, deep in the Puerto Rico Trench north of San Juan, lies a film bucket from a KH-4 Corona spy satellite television. It should have been caught in mid-air with a C-130 through the 6549th Test Group. That didn’t happen. So the US Navy bathyscaphe Trieste II must descend twenty thousand ft to get the bucket, down where light has never reached and the pressure can be four plenty per square inch. But there is more in the depths than anyone got expected, much more.

This is not our world. Nonetheless it very nearly was.