Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
Categories: History, Science & Math
Rocket Men is a 2018 book by Robert Kurson, author of Shadow Divers. Its subtitle is The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon, and it became a New York Times bestseller. In 1968, a year of war and assassinations, NASA risked an early launch to send three men around the Moon by Christmas. Drawing on interviews with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders and their families, Kurson tells the story of the mission and the people behind it.
Recommended by 1 person
- Jason Silva: “"When we dream of space, we dream of transcendence. We dream of what we might become" - from the book Rocket Men.”