Review of Rocket Men by Robert Kurson (NY Times Best-seller)

While we await Liberty One, I thought I'd stick to the space theme for this month's review. Rocket Men is a non-fiction account of Apollo 8, NASA’s first manned mission to leave Earth and head for the Moon in 1968. The astronauts didn’t land of course - that happened on Apollo 11 the following year, but the significance of this mission is that the crew were the first humans to leave planet Earth for another world. They took monumental risks to get all those great earthrise shots we love. This book is great on so many fronts. It begins with the Cold War, so you get…