GEMINI

Without Gemini, there would be no Apollo.

From the bestselling author of APOLLO 13 comes the thrilling untold story of the pioneering Gemini program that was instrumental in getting Americans on the moon. After we first launched Americans into low-Earth orbit but before we touched down on the moon's surface, there was the Gemini program. It was no easy jump from manned missions in space to a successful moon landing, and the ten-flight, twenty-month celestial story of the Gemini program is an extraordinary one. There was unavoidable darkness in the program the deaths and near-deaths that defined it, and the blood feud with the Soviet Union that animated it. But there were undeniable and previously inconceivable successes. With a war raging in Vietnam and lawmakers calling for cuts on NASA's budget, the success of the Gemini programor the space program in generalwas never guaranteed. Yet against all odds, the remarkable scientists and astronauts behind the project persevered, and their efforts paid off. And, with the knowledge gained from the Gemini flights, NASA would launch the legendary Apollo program. Told with Jeffrey Kluger's signature cinematic storytelling and in-depth research and interviews,GEMINI an edge-of-your-seat narrative chronicling the history of the least appreciatedand most groundbreakingspace program in American history. Finally, Gemini's story will be told, and finally, we'll learn the truth of how we landed on the moon. Jeffrey Kluger is Editor at Large at Time, where he has written more than 45 cover stories. Coauthor of Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, which was the basis for the movie Apollo 13, he is also the author of 12 other books including Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the conquest of Polio.