Too Far From Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space

Science News,  April 28, 2007  

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TOO FAR FROM HOME: A Story of Life and Death in Space CHRIS JONES

What does it take to go into space? How does the experience change the people who do it? In this book, journalist Jones recounts the mental and physical experiences of three men caught up in one of the most dramatic episodes in space exploration.

While the world grieved after the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster in 2003, three men came to terms with the event from a perspective unlike any other. U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox and Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin were orbiting Earth aboard the International Space Station when the disaster suddenly left them with no scheduled return home. Jones chronicles the emotional race against time for these space travelers and their mission-control counterparts. Random House, 2007, 304 pages, hardcover, $24.95.

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