Scott Ourecky wanted to fly; he never dreamed he'd end up in a secret
military space program.
The year is 1968. The Cold War is far from over, and nuclear
annihilation is always only a heartbeat away. America is racing the
Soviet Union to land men on the moon, a war is raging, and a pivotal
presidential election looms on the horizon. A child of the early space
age, Lieutenant Scott Ourecky joins the Air Force with aspirations of
going to flight school. A brilliant engineer, he repeatedly fails the
aptitude test to become a pilot but is selected to work on a highly
classified military space program--the innocuously named Aerospace
Support Project--n which Air Force astronauts are slated to fly missions
to intercept and destroy suspect Soviet satellites.
When one of the astronauts in training abruptly falls out of the
project, Ourecky is asked to fill in for the two-man simulated missions
and survival training only, serving with a headstrong and abrasive test
pilot, Major Drew Carson, until another astronaut can be assigned. By
far the most proficient pilot assigned to the project, Carson has a
dangerous propensity to engage in pickup dogfighting sessions while on
cross-country training flights. And although Ourecky was only a
temporary placeholder, not destined to fly in space, he soon finds
himself much more involved than he ever anticipated--and in deepest
peril.
Based on a real secret space program, Blue Gemini combines
high-altitude action with edge-of-your-seat storytelling to create a
modern classic Cold War thriller.
