- ISBN13: 9780767919913
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Formerly Titled TOO FAR FROM HOME
On February 1, 2003, the nation was stunned to watch the shuttle Columbia disintegrate into a blue-green sky. Despite the numerous new reports surrounding the tragedy, the public remained largely unaware that three men, U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox, and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin, remained orbiting Earth. With the launch program suspended indefinitely, these astronauts, who were alrea… More >>
Tags: astronauts, flight engineer, green sky, hundreds of miles, kenneth bowersox, launch, nikolai budarin, pettit, shuttle columbia, three men
#1 by J. Bourquin on July 4, 2010 - 10:52 am
This is a very good read; Despite what the Editorial Comment says, Columbia was lost on February 1, 2003, not the 23rd.
However I was dismayed by a serious, SERIOUS, error of detail: on page 21 the author states that STS-71 Atlantis’s External Tank was attacked by woodpeckers, making necessary time-consuming repairs to the foam insulation. NO!!!!! NO NO NO!!! That was the STS-70 Discovery launch vehicle! Just because both flights launched in the summer of 1995 does NOT mean you just pick a flight to attach an incident to. To me this is a major, catastrophic detail-error. Does it matter to the story? Of course not, but if the author gets information that is easily made correct with 5 minutes of research, who’s to say the rest of the book’s details aren’t wrong? I just happen to be familiar with that incident, but not with necessarily everything else he discusses, and again, how can I trust that he’s gotten everything else right when there’s such an unbelievably glaring error early in the book?!?
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by Dave English on July 4, 2010 - 10:59 am
This is the paperback version of the hardback ‘Too Far from Home.’ If you want to read reviews for this book there are many good ones already online, just search for ‘Too Far from Home’. Which is a more correct title I think for two astonauts and a cosmonaut stuck in the International Space Station after the space shuttle Columbia accident. They were a long way from home, but they were in orbit. So Out of Orbit seems to make little sense, unless it refers to getting out of orbit. Whew!
Anyway, I hope searching for ‘Too Far from Home’ helps you find out about this paperback version.
Rating: 4 / 5