DNFing at 38% for almost entirely me-not-you reasons.

I sometimes found the timeline confusing, as I felt the author hopped back and forth between years, especially when covering the WWII years. There was also a certain amount of whiplash between dry technical details and the salacious details of the messy personal lives of the main players.

The book was well written with a pleasant narrative voice, and the story itself was an interesting one.
Ultimately though, (aside form being in a reading slump that I just can't seem to shake) I just wasn't as interested in the topic as I thought I would be.

I would actually recommend this for history nerds and people interested in a lesser known side of 20th century science.

The untold story a few of the people behind the early days of the US space program - a tale that takes the reader from an FBI investigation for "un-American activities" to a cameo by L. Ron Hubbard. Obscure men with pretty big flaws - just like the rest of us. But THESE men got Americans into space, despite their shortcomings.