Since this is fiction weaved into real history, I recognized a lot of the people and events of the space program, and it adds to the authenticity of the whole thing. With the quickening pace of the book, the reader can’t help but be absorbed in the tension of each moment. I also question that NOBODY in this story ever brings up a legal, political, or ethical concern that the US is essentially going into space to sabotage Soviet property. After reading An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, I believe that the antagonist in this book is probably Hadfield’s idea of the worst type of person.

What I will question is the basic premise and way this book is structured just from a thriller standpoint. And yet they still decide to land on the fucking moon rather than just orbiting once and coming back immediately.Holding their collective breaths, Washington and Moscow await news, putting aside their differences for a moment, but refusing to melt the chill in the air! If you are the publisher or author and feel that they do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, send us a message with the mainstream reviews that you would like to see added. It was full of conveniences, constant head-hopping, useless characters, annoying stereotypes, unnecessary detail, inconsistent pacing, bizarre character motivations, bland dialogue, too many subplots, no character development, and boring prose. I also have enjoyed watching Hadfield in various media appearances and would give another book by him a shot.

Our hero is Nasa flight controller Kazimieras “Kaz” Zemeckis, a former pilotwho lost his eye flying an F-4 Phantom, while it’s soon clear that many of those on this mission have agendas of their own. One rather minor one is a geologist involved in the lunar program, who becomes a love interest for the more prominent CAPCOM, Kaz. This book was written by a former test pilot and astronaut who has a ton of experience in space and in working with the Russian space agency. Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. The premise of the book is that it’s 1973, and NASA is flying one more lunar landing mission, Apollo 18, funded by the Defense Department.This blend of plausible history reflects our greatest fears in the Cold War and places them in the great expanse of outer space.

The National Atomic Testing Museum (NATM) is operated and maintained by its parent organization, the Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation (NTSHF), an IRS 501(c) 3 charitable, non-profit organization chartered in Nevada. But the real and genuine joy of The Apollo Murders is the insight Hadfield gives into life as an astronaut, the moments as launch approaches: “Still three miles away, yet clearly visible high above the flood plain, the Saturn V rocket was like some ancient Egyptian monument to the gods… gleaming white in the morning sunshine. and helped create and host, along with actor Will Smith, the National Geographic series One Strange Rock. Hadfield also speaks fluent Russian, so I’d imagine that those passages would be correct—it’s a major pet-peeve of mine when authors insist on having foreign languages in their novels but butcher even the most basic sentences. You're present with the characters whether it's in the control room, Apollo 18 or the Universal Joint.The best aspect of this one was the inclusion of the technical and historical details surrounding astronaut life. The premise of the piece was not only brilliant, but its execution was stellar from the opening pages. We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006). Science fiction should be about mind-bending ideas concerning radical changes to society due to future technology and/or science.