Out of Orbit The Incredible True Story of Three Astronauts Who Were Hundreds of Miles above Earth When They Lost Their Ride Home

Name: Out of Orbit The Incredible True Story of Three Astronauts Who Were Hundreds of Miles above Earth When They Lost Their Ride Home
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ISBN: 9780767919913

ISBN-10: 0767919912

ISBN-13: 9780767919913

Edition: 2008

Authors: Chris Jones

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An incredible, true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all—outer spaceIn the nearly forty years since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, space travel has come to be seen as a routine enterprise—at least until the shuttleColumbiadisintegrated like theChallengerbefore it, reminding us, once again, that the dangers are all too real. Too Far from Homevividly captures the hazardous realities of space travel. Every time an astronaut makes the trip into space, he faces the possibility of death from the slightest mechanical error or instance of bad luck: a cracked O-ring, an errant piece of space junk, an oxygen leak . . . There are a myriad of frighteningly probable events that…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Prologue



Simple Machines



The Other Side of the Envelope



The Geography of Isolation



Time and Distance



Gone



The Best Parts of Lonely



Earthshine



A Thin Thread



Mission Control



"I Think We're in Trouble"



The Weight of the World


Epilogue


Acknowledgments