Taylor Jenkins Reid, autora best seller #1 del New York Times de Los siete maridos de Evelyn Hugo y Todos quieren a Daisy Jones, nos presenta una impresionante novela épica sobre el programa del transbordador espacial de 1980 y los extraordinarios esfuerzos que hacemos para vivir y amar más allá de nuestros límites… En el verano de 1980, la profesora de Astrofísica Joan Goodwin comienza su entrenamiento en el Centro Espacial Johnson de Houston, junto a un grupo excepcional de compañeros: el piloto de élite Hank Redmond; los especialistas de la misión John Griffin y Lydia Danes; la afable Donna Fitzgerald; y Vanessa Ford, la magnética y misteriosa ingeniera aeronáutica. Mientras los nuevos astronautas se preparan para sus primeros vuelos, Joan encuentra una pasión y un amor que nunca imaginó. Bajo esa nueva perspectiva, empieza a cuestionar todo lo que creía saber sobre su lugar en el universo visible. Sin embargo, en diciembre de 1984, durante la misión STS-LR9, todo cambia en un instante.
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space. Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easygoing even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane. As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe. Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant. Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, creating complex protagonists, and telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love—this time among the stars.