Space is big. Really mindbogglingly big. You may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist's, but that's peanuts compared to space.
--butchered quote from one of the Hitchhiker's Guide books
Summary: this book follows the lives of four men who were involved in the US space program (at least in the fictional universe in which they reside) as well as those parts of other people's lives relevant to the main four. It begins towards the end of World War II and follows the story through the retirement of three of them in the early 1980's. I'm not sure a real summary can be made other than "the lives of four men".
Comments: I now want to learn about the universe and about the current space missions. This book was very informative on little bits of the subject. Lots of scientific information. Very dense read, very long book. You'd better have lots of time available if you expect to get this book finished.
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