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\n NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \u2022 The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind\u2019s historic first mission to the Moon, from the\u00a0bestselling author of Shadow Divers.<\/p>\n

\u201cRobert Kurson tells the tale of Apollo 8 with novelistic detail and immediacy.\u201d\u2014Andy Weir, #1 New York Times\u00a0bestselling author of The Martian\u00a0and Artemis<\/p>\n

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\u2019s end-of-decade deadline, and to triumph over the Soviets in space. 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\u2014in just four months. And it would all happen at Christmas.<\/p>\n

In a year of historic violence and discord\u2014the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago\u2014the Apollo 8 mission would be the boldest, riskiest test of America\u2019s greatness under pressure. 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\u2019d 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s finest hours. 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\u2014and arrive at a new world.<\/p>\n

\u201cRocket Men\u00a0is a riveting introduction to the\u00a0[Apollo 8] flight. . . . Kurson details the mission in crisp, suspenseful scenes. . . . [A] gripping book.\u201d\u2014The New York Times Book Review <\/p>\n

Publisher \u200f : \u200e Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition (May 21, 2019)
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Paperback \u200f : \u200e 384 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 081298871X
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-0812988710
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 2.31 pounds
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 5.16 x 0.83 x 7.97 inches <\/p>\n

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