Review of The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel (NY Times Best Selling Author)

A few of you asked me to share my research for Liberty One and late last year I recommended Rocket Men (review link below if you missed it). Today I want to share a book with a different perspective. What did the American astronaut wives experience when the nation first went to space in the 1950s and 60s? I drew from The Astronaut Wives Club to understand and create Jim and JoAnn’s life in Liberty One. In 2015 the book became a TV series which is still available on Amazon Prime. The book begins with the Mercury seven announcement in 1959…

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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…

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