Too Far From Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (693 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385514654 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars Nancy Parker One of the astronauts in the book is a personal friendDon Pettit so fascinating to read this story. "Space Geeks, Look Elsewhere" according to Terry Sunday. As much as I try not to generalize from limited data, I must make the following observation: sportswriters should stick to writing books about things they know, i.e., sports. Sportswriters should NOT try to write about technical subjects like spaceflight. The prime example of a book that should never have been written is "For All Mankind," by sports. a little too much bravado RB from Berkeley Felt like there was a little too much effort put into making this into a Manly Tale. Everything seems a little too exagerrated- the spicy language, the icy fear, the burning decisions. Maybe this style would have held up without question in a magazine, but at the novel's length, I kept wondering- "How do you know?" The little details started to feel
In fact, twenty-one people who have attempted the journey have been killed.Yet for a special breed of individual, the call of space is worth the risk. With the launch program suspended indefinitely, these astronauts had suddenly lost their ride home.Too Far from Home chronicles the efforts of the beleaguered Mission Controls in Houston and Moscow as they work frantically against the clock to bring their men safely back to Earth, ultimately settling on a plan that felt, at best, like a long shot.Latched to the side of the space station was a Russian
That sort of frank talk enhances readers' identification with the astronauts, making their drama all the more engrossing. From Publishers Weekly When the space shuttle Columbia broke up during its re-entry into Earth's atmosphere in February 2003, two American astronauts were still aboard the International Space Station, along with a Russian flight engineer. Though extensive accounts of the Americans' backgrounds seems at first to put the brakes on, it's a necessary counterweight to parallel passages about the little-understood Russian space program—essential information because the three eventually took "an accelerated, lung-crushing dive" in a Soyuz capsule. In addition to that adventure, Jones's reporting is filled with details of life aboard the space station, from the amazing beauty of a space walk to the more mundane