Summary
- In this gritty and scientifically accurate science fiction adventure fromNew York Times bestselling author Ben Bova and NASA space scientist LesJohnson, the first human mission to Mars meets with near-disaster when ameteoroid strikes the spacecraft, almost destroying it! Too far from Earth tosimply turn around and return home, the eight-person crew must ride theircrippled ship to Mars while they desperately struggle to survive. On Earth,powerful political forces that oppose human spac…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781476736471 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1476736472 |
| Author: | Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. |
| Publisher: | Baen Books |
| Imprint: | Baen Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 6 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 739g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 156mm x 235mm |
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About The Author
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Les Johnson is a futurist, author, and retired NASA Chief Technologist at Marshall Space Flight Center. Publishers Weekly noted that “The spirit of Arthur C. Clarke and his contemporaries is alive and well …” when describing his novel, Mission to Methone. His most recent novels, The Spacetime War and Saving Proxima (with coauthor Travis S. Taylor), were published in 2021. He and Travis S. Taylor were also the authors of Back to the Moon and On to Mars. In his day job at NASA, Les has worked on the development of next-generation space technologies–including solar sails, which he believes will eventually take us to the stars. He has recently appeared on Fox News and the Ingraham Report as a commentator on the latest expedition to the moon, Artemis II.
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