Operation Boomerang

America is racing to circle the Moon before the Soviets do, and Colonel Wade Boeman commands the Starfrost spacecraft - a vessel designed to orbit Luna and return, if everything goes perfectly, which it never will. This is not a story of triumphant science conquering the void. It is a story of flesh-and-blood men making impossible choices under unimaginable pressure, of courage that goes unseen and sacrifice that goes unrewarded. George Revelle wrote this in the era when lunar flight was still fantasy, and he understood what the real obstacle would never be: gravity or radiation, but the human heart, with its fears and its hungers and its terrifying capacity for both cowardice and breathtaking heroism. The irony at the core of Operation Boomerang is brutal and simple - the bravest souls are often the ones history forgets.