Hadfield's use of real people brings historical authenticity to the novel, and there are many tidbits of NASA lore that only an insider could provide, but the devotion to technical facts has some drawbacks.
Repurposed as a crew liaison for NASA, Zemeckis is involved in both the training for and the mission of Apollo 18. The story opens with not one but two aircraft episodes-a bird strike wrecks an F-4 Phantom and a Cessna 170B is taken out for a rhapsodic spin-then follows the developing career of Kaz Zemeckis, who, until the bird strike cost him an eye, had been a military astronaut with good prospects of going to the moon. Incorporating real-life characters and events, spanning decades and distances both terrestrial and translunar, this NASA-heavy thriller has everything, including perhaps a bit too many meticulously reported technical procedures. A vast Cold War space thriller from astronaut Hadfield.
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