Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon Audiobook (Free)

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

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

By August 1968, the American space plan was in danger of failing in its two most significant objectives: to land 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. Using its back against the wall structure, NASA made an nearly unimaginable leap: It could scrap its usual methodical approach and risk everything on an abrupt release, sending the 1st men in history to the Moon-in simply four a few months. And it could all happen at Christmas.

In a yr of historic violence and discord-the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther Ruler, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, the riots on the Democratic National Convention in Chicago-the Apollo 8 mission would be the boldest, riskiest test of America’s greatness under great pressure. With this gripping insider account, Robert Kurson places the focus on the three astronauts and their families: the commander, Frank Borman, a conflicted guy on his last objective; idealistic Jim Lovell, who’d imagined since boyhood of operating a rocket towards the Moon; and Bill Anders, a young nuclear engineer and hotshot fighter pilot producing his initial space flight.

Drawn from hundreds of hours of one-on-one interviews using the astronauts, themselves, NASA workers, and myriad specialists, and filled up with vibrant and unforgettable details, Rocket Men may be the definitive accounts of one of America’s finest hours. In this real-life thriller, Kurson reveals the epic hazards involved, as well as the singular bravery it required, for mankind to keep Globe for the first time-and reach a new globe.

“Rocket Men is a riveting introduction to the [Apollo 8] airline flight . . Kurson details the mission in crisp, suspenseful moments. . . . [A] gripping publication.”-The New York Times Book Review