Then Will The Great Ocean Wash Deep Above: Apollo Quartet Book 3 Audiobook (Free)
- Trina Nishimura
- 2 h 13 min
- Novel Audio
- 2017-01-31
Summary:
It is April 1962. The Korean War offers escalated and the US is struggling to keep carefully the Russians and Chinese north of the 38th parallel. All of the men are aside fighting, but that doesn’t mean the area Race is lost. NASA chooses to look somewhere else for its astronauts: the thirteen females pilots who handed down the same checks as the initial male candidates. These are the Mercury 13: Jerrie Cobb, Janey Hart, Myrtle Cagle, Jerri Sloan, Jan Dietrich, Marion Dietrich, Bernice Steadman, Wally Funk, Sarah Gorelick, about Then Will The Great Ocean Wash Deep Above: Apollo Quartet Reserve 3 Gene Nora Stumbough, Jean Hixson, Rhea Hurrle and Irene Leverton. Among these ladies will be the first American in space. Another will be the first American to spacewalk. Maybe one will even become the first individual to walk on the Moon.
Beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, deep in the Puerto Rico Trench north of San Juan, lies a film bucket from a KH-4 Corona spy satellite. It should have already been captured in mid-air with a C-130 in 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 certainly even more in the depths than anyone had expected, much more.
This is not our world. Nonetheless it very nearly was.
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