Too Far From Home
A Story of Life and Death in Space
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Narrated by:
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Erik Davies
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By:
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Chris Jones
For a special breed of individual, the call of space is worth the risk it entails: men such as U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox, and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin, who in November 2002 left on what was to be a routine fourteen-week mission maintaining the International Space Station.
But then, on February 1, 2003, the Columbia exploded beneath them. 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.
Chris Jones writes beautifully of the majesty and mystique of space travel, while reminding us all how perilous it is to soar beyond the sky.
fascinating insight into long term missions
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Fascinating full of information for the enthusiastWhat did you like best about this story?
It has so much information about both the US and Russian space programsWhat about Erik Davies’s performance did you like?
very good reading, very funny when he tries to imitate a Russian accentWas there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
the end was excellentAny additional comments?
this book is very interesting if you like space exploration and would like to know about it's history.Excellent book
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A superb listen to a overlooked situation.
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Gripping account of a long stay ISS mission
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for me I couldn't put it down.
Too Far from Home
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