The manuscript I read had a different cover, but I think it's the same book.

And yes, it's true. I work at NASA and some of my managers were there as early as the Apollo program. The connection to the military is an open secret that is well-known but has always been divorced from the mythic of the space race. It wasn't until the players retired, memoirs were published, and the fall of the U.S.S.R. that historians were able to put the pieces into a cohesive whole, telling the story from both sides. Matthew Brzezinski draws upon this more recent research for the book.