National Space Day: 10 thrilling books on space exploration and technology
Summary
Drawn from hours of one-on-one interviews with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders, and their loved ones, plus NASA personnel and experts, this book reveals the dangers involved, and the bravery it took, for mankind to leave Earth for the first time. "Robert Kurson tells the tale of Apollo 8 with novelistic detail and immediacy," said Andy Weir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian and Artemis. The #1 New York Times Bestseller is set amid the civil rights movement and tells the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space programme. It has the very rare combination of a good, original story, interestingly real characters, and fascinating technical accuracy…reads like MacGyver meets Mysterious Island.” The Martian is now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon. She describes in vivid detail what lift-off feels like inside a spacecraft, shows us the view from a spacewalk, and recounts the temporary grounding of the shuttle programme after the Challenger disaster.