Back to the Moon

Zusatztext "Wonderful....A great adventure yarn....Danger keeps zapping at you from all sides at top-gun speed...the action is nonstop." -- The Washington Post Book World "Escalating tension, danger and excitement." -- The New York Times Book Review Informationen zum Autor Homer H. Hickam, Jr., was born and raised in Coalwood, West Virginia. The author of Torpedo Junction , a Military History Book of the Month Club selection, as well as numerous articles for such publications as Smithsonian Air and Space and American History Illustrated, he is a NASA payload training manager for the International Space Program and lives in Huntsville, Alabama. Klappentext A renegade astronaut hijacks a shuttle and blasts off on a high-speed chase to the moon—“a great adventure yarn” ( The Washington Post Book World ) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rocket Boys “[Full of] escalating tension, danger, and excitement.”— The New York Times Book Review The shuttle is hijacked. Now the countdown to adventure begins. . . . Jack Medaris is a man haunted by his past and driven by a dream: He’s risking everything to “borrow” the Columbia —and pilot it to the moon. He didn’t plan on an unexpected passenger, beautiful celebrity daredevil and scientist Penny High Eagle. To Penny, this hijacking will test every bit of her mettle as an adventurer—and as a woman. To Jack, the mission is a personal quest—to return to the moon and bring back what America left behind, something so explosive it could change the future of the world. Now, as the U.S. government scrambles to the chase, and as deadly forces are deployed from earth to stop them, a man and a woman find their fates inextricably entwined. And in the savage emptiness of deep space, their only hope is to join forces to reach the lunar surface. Then comes the hard part. Getting home alive. Leseprobe Decimation This I have known always: love is no more Than the wide blossom which the wind assails, Than the great tide that treads the shifting shore, Strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales. Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn. — Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Pity Me Not" LAUNCH MINUS 5 MONTHS, 13 DAYS, 14 HOURS, AND COUNTING . . . Prometheus MEC Clean Room, Hangar 1-D, Cedar Key, Florida "NASA is and always has been a subversive organization. Anything else you hear is a public relations lie," Jack Medaris said. Dr. Isaac Perlman looked at the ceiling of the big hangar and wagged his head from side to side, an indication of his doubt at his companion's comment. "Subversive? Why, Jack, there's never been a more conservative bureaucracy on this planet. It takes polls to see what it should do next. It lets politicians decide technical matters. You forget I went there first for my moon dirt. NASA just laughed at me. That's why I hired you!" Medaris and Perlman, dressed in clean-room regalia--white one-piece coveralls, puffy plastic hats, and latex gloves--were watching a dozen other similarly clothed men and women ministering to what looked to be a giant robot, two gangly arms akimbo, mounted on a go-cart. The doleful strains of Barber's Adagio for Strings accompanied the technicians as they moved slowly and reverently around the machine's oddly shaped pyramid of spheres, rods, and cables. Antennae protruded from each level of the machine. Its "arms" were actually two extendable and jointed booms. At the end of one of the booms was a digger, a rakelike device. The other arm had a grasping claw. "I'll grant you NASA as a bureaucracy is timid," Jack said. "But what I'm talking about is its charter. NASA is supposed to develop the means to allow American citizens ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Homer Hickam, Homer H. Hickam
• Verlag: Random House USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 11.04.2000
• EAN: 9780440235385
• ISBN: 978-0-440-23538-5
• Seiten: 494
• Abmessung: 108 mm x 176 mm x 27 mm
• Thema: Belletristik > Spannung