From the number 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the Eighties Space Shuttle program about the outstanding lengths we go to stay and love past our limits.
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed on the celebs for as long as she can don’t forget. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content along with her existence as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, till she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s Space Shuttle application. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to visit area.
Selected from a pool of heaps of applicants in the summer time of 1980, Joan starts offevolved schooling at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, along an wonderful group of fellow applicants: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and clean-going even if the stakes are highest; mission expert Lydia Danes, who has labored too difficult to play exceptional; heat-hearted Donna Fitzgerald, who’s navigating her personal secrets and techniques; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can repair any engine and fly any plane.
As the new astronauts become not going buddies and put together for his or her first flights, Joan unearths a ardour and a love she in no way imagined. In this new mild, Joan starts to impeach the entirety she thinks she knows about her region in the observable universe.
Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, the entirety modifications in an immediately.
Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her fine: transporting readers to iconic times and locations, with complicated protagonists, telling a passionate and hovering tale approximately the transformative energy of love, this time a number of the stars.
