Marty Steere

Sea of Crises Marty Steere

What really happened to the crew of Apollo 18 in the Mare Crisium, the Sea of Crises?  A mission conducted in eerie silence after loss of all communications during the astronauts' first moonwalk, it ended in tragedy when the heat shield on the command capsule failed during re-entry, leaving three dead astronauts inside burned beyond recognition.  With them died the answer to a great mystery:  What was the meaning of mission commander Bob Cartwright's statement, "That shouldn't be here," uttered just before the loss of communication?  Thirty-six years later, Cartwright's sons make a shocking discovery:  The capsule that came down in the Pacific Ocean with three charred remains was not their father's capsule.  And the body they buried all those years before was not their father.