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"Many of these people are real. Much of this actually happened."

- The first line of the book

The Apollo Murders is the fourth book by Chris Hadfield, and his first work of fiction intended for adults. It was published in 2021.

In a World where the Apollo program continued to Apollo 18 with military funding, Kaz Zemeckis will never go into space because he lost an eye to a bird strike to the last aircraft he test flew. But that didn't keep him out of the DoD's astronaut program. ...

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TROPE CANDIDATE: * Give the Villain a Hero's Funeral: It wasn't until was told to make sure his story was straight before his trial that he realizes he was not only acting against NASA's interests but was also guilty of murder and treason. He drowns himself, but because of his high-visibility position in a program faced with massive budget cuts, NASA gives him a headstone at Arlington.
 * Historical Domain Character: There are nineteen Real Life people portrayed in the roles they had at the time the novel was set, from the county sheriff to the President of the United States to the Chairman of the KGB. An appendix lists them all.
 * Write What You Know:
 * The novel is about astronauts and cosmonauts, and was written by an astronaut.
 * The protagonist used to be a test pilot before joining the military astronaut program. Chris Hadfield used to be a military test pilot before joining the astronaut program.