Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield joins Annette Hamm on Morning Live to chat about his chilling alternative version of history in his new novel The Apollo Murders.
The crime fiction is set in 1973 aboard a fictional flight of Apollo 18, which NASA actually cancelled because of budget cuts in real life.
In The Apollo Murders, however, the mission starts off with orders from the U.S. military to probe an armed Soviet spy space station.
“The crossover between the Cold War, the space race, what it was really like in the Soviet Union at the time and the American political scene made for a really harry, twisted plot that all comes thundering down to the big splash down in the Pacific just north of Hawaii at the end,” Hadfield said.
The Ontario native has written multiple non-fiction bestsellers based on his more than two-decade career as an astronaut. Hadfield is the first Canadian to do a spacewalk, he has participated in three space missions and served as the commander of the International Space Station.
The Apollo Murders has received recognition from news outlets around the world and celebrities such as filmmaker James Cameron.
“I’m really pleased with seeing how people are reacting to the story,” Hadfield said. “It was a huge challenge for me. It feels like another whole launch to have released a fiction book that came out of my head.”
The Apollo Murders can be purchased on his website, Amazon and Indigo, among others.
