Robert Kurson, the author of Shadow Divers, has a new book available for pre-order; it is not a scuba book but it sounds interesting and exciting!
Dear Friend,
I’m thrilled to announce TODAY that my new book Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon, is available for pre-order.
Ask people about the Apollo space program and they’re most familiar with Apollo 11, when man first set foot on the Moon. But by many accounts, an even more daring and risky mission occurred seven months earlier when Apollo 8, crewed by Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders, became the first manned flight ever to reach the Moon.
The story of Apollo 8 has it all: an existential enemy (the Soviets); a race against time; epic danger; close calls; a stunning and unexpected broadcast heard by one-third of the world’s population; a single photograph, Earthrise, that remains perhaps the most famous ever taken; a story of three heroic wives; and an ending powerful enough to unite a divided nation at the end of one of its most terrible years.
I’m extremely proud of this story and so excited to share it with you. I hope you take a moment now to order the book so you can enjoy mankind’s first trip to the Moon along with me, and with the crew of Apollo 8, who gave so much of their time to me to help make this book a reality.
Thanks so much. Your support means the world to me.
- Robert
Dear Friend,
I’m thrilled to announce TODAY that my new book Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon, is available for pre-order.
Ask people about the Apollo space program and they’re most familiar with Apollo 11, when man first set foot on the Moon. But by many accounts, an even more daring and risky mission occurred seven months earlier when Apollo 8, crewed by Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders, became the first manned flight ever to reach the Moon.
The story of Apollo 8 has it all: an existential enemy (the Soviets); a race against time; epic danger; close calls; a stunning and unexpected broadcast heard by one-third of the world’s population; a single photograph, Earthrise, that remains perhaps the most famous ever taken; a story of three heroic wives; and an ending powerful enough to unite a divided nation at the end of one of its most terrible years.
I’m extremely proud of this story and so excited to share it with you. I hope you take a moment now to order the book so you can enjoy mankind’s first trip to the Moon along with me, and with the crew of Apollo 8, who gave so much of their time to me to help make this book a reality.
Thanks so much. Your support means the world to me.
- Robert