A review by cpalisa
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon by Jeffrey Kluger

5.0

4.5 stars for this one. I am so not a science-y person, but for some reason the early Astronaut program is so intriguing to me. I think it's a combination of the time period along with the idea of something so big and exciting that the entire world was wrapped up in. This (obviously) focuses on the Apollo 8 mission, the first mission to the moon - orbiting it, not landing on it. There is a fair bit of backstory working up to it that was interesting. The author spends time on the families and NASA, how the pilots (astronauts) got to where they were, and the pilots themselves. At times the science got too specific for me, but someone else might be all over that. I just really enjoyed the story. This was an audiobook and the last few tracks were snippets from the actual recordings between NASA and Apollo 8, which was quite a bonus. If you like space stuff, I would definitely recommend.