1973: top secret mission as part of the last flight to the moon. Three astronauts in a tiny spacecraft four hundred thousand kilometers from home. Four hundred thousand kilometers from any help.
NASA is about to launch Apollo 18. Although the mission looks scientific, flight controller Kazimieras "Kaz" Zemeckis knows that its purpose has a darker background. After all, intelligence services have revealed that America is being secretly spied on by a Soviet space station, and Apollo 18 represents perhaps the only chance to stop it.
As Kaz tries to keep the NASA-selected crew one step ahead of their Russian rivals, mishaps occur that reveal that not everyone involved is what they seem. Politically, the stakes are enormous, and the White House and the Kremlin can only watch as their astronauts compete on the lunar surface, where the hand of justice cannot reach and where there is no rescue.
Bursting with the fascinating technical details that fans of The Martian have come to love, as well as the suspenseful claustrophobia, twists and turns of The Submarine Hunt, Murders in Apollo is a riveting thriller like no other. In it, Chris Hadfield captured the harsh overload of launch, the freezing loneliness of space and the fear of a person clinging to the shell of a spaceship circling the Earth at a speed of 7.5 kilometers per second, as only someone who has experienced it all can do.< br /> Buckle up and get ready for a ride like you've never experienced before.