'Rocket Men' Author Robert Kurson Visits EP Library Monday

EVERGREEN PARK, IL -- New York Times bestselling author Robert Kurson drops in at the Evergreen Park Public Library Monday, June 4, to discuss his book, Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to Moon. Rocket Men tells the story of Apollo 8 and the three brave astronauts who took one of the most dangerous space flights in NASA history. The presentation runs from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

By August 1968, with its back against the wall, NASA decided to scrap its usual methodical approach and shoot for the heavens. With just four months to prepare – a fraction of the normal time – the agency would send the first men in history to the Moon. In a year of historic violence and discord – the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the Chicago Democratic National Convention Riots – the Apollo 8 mission was the boldest test of what American could do. With a focus on astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders, and their wives and children, this vivid, gripping, you-are-there narrative chronicles the epic danger involved and the singular bravery it took for man to leave Earth for the first time, and to arrive at a new world.

Registration is requested on the library website or call 708-422-8522. The Evergreen Park Public Library is located at 9400 S. Troy, Evergreen Park.