Apollo 8: The Captivating Story of the First Flight to the Moon

In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: to launch the first crewed spacecraft to the Moon. Just a year earlier, three astronauts had died in a fire during tests, and since then, the Apollo program had suffered one failure after another. Meanwhile, the USSR was winning the space race, the Cold War was getting hotter by the month, and President Kennedy's promise to send a man to the Moon by the end of the decade seemed unattainable. But when Frank Borman was called to a secret meeting and offered his crew a dangerous mission, he agreed without hesitation. This book is the first detailed account of Apollo 8. Jeffrey Kluger offers the reader a captivating story of a mission that was so risky it felt almost like a lottery, but, by succeeding, marked the beginning of a new era in space exploration.