Too Far From Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space
Chris Jones
Mar 2007 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Erik Davies
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An incredible true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all–outer space
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.
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.
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About the author
Chris Jones is the author of Out of Orbit: The Incredible True Story of Three Astronauts Who Were Hundreds of Miles Above Earth When They Lost Their Ride Home, Too Far from Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space, and Falling Hard: A Rookie's Year in Boxing. Jones was formerly a sportswriter at the National Post, where he won an award as Canada's outstanding young journalist. He joined Esquire as a contributing editor and sports columnist, and became a writer at large when he won the 2005 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing for the story that became the basis for his second book. His work has also appeared in The Best American Magazine Writing and The Best American Sports Writing anthologies. He lives in Ottawa, Canada.
Erik Davies is a Los Angeles–based actor of stage and screen who has appeared in Mona Lisa Smile, ER, Third Watch, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. His stage credits include G. R. Point and Unpublished Letters. He has also narrated numerous audiobooks, such as The Diamond Caper and Andre Agassi’s autobiography, Open.
Erik Davies is a Los Angeles–based actor of stage and screen who has appeared in Mona Lisa Smile, ER, Third Watch, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. His stage credits include G. R. Point and Unpublished Letters. He has also narrated numerous audiobooks, such as The Diamond Caper and Andre Agassi’s autobiography, Open.
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