GenevaBookClub: The story of America's space program from its inception in the 1950's up to the end of the Gemini program (so it doesn't include the Apollo program which culminated on the moon landings from 1969). A wonderful recital of larger-than-life, heroic, risk-taking on an epic scale with a budget to match. Wolfe's style, dubbed the new journalism, doesn't pull any punches and is full of funny, pithy comments on the people who first put Americans into space. It's a story of technology, politics and above all of hard-bitten test pilots who aren't afraid to put their lives on the line and who've watched their friends die doing the same.