Resistance to evil, to those who treat our lives as less than, as sport, resistance even in the face of futility. If a second parachute had failed, the spacecraft would probably have been crushed on impact with the ocean, according to a NASA official. Astronaut Don Pettit injured his shoulder and was placed on a stretcher in a rescue helicopter and did not take part in post-landing ceremonies. Finally, there is Moss, a creature made of, well, moss, who can shift into any form and who has created a link between the minds of all three of them. John Bjornstad died at the scene; Forrest Cole went into a coma and died two weeks later, and Nick Mullon died 14 years later from complications of injuries sustained.

I picked up Dead Astronauts a while back because I really enjoyed Vandermeer's Southern Reach Trilogy and a few folks had glowing recommendations of DA, saying if I liked the trilogy then I would really dig this book too. The escaping ammonia froze on the spacesuit of astronaut Curbeam as he struggled to close the valve. Estes, 46, was killed while hooking up an 8-inch (20 cm) high-pressure water line, which should not have been pressurized at the time, to the mobile Service structure on Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A. First-novelist Tartt goes muzzy when she has to describe human confrontations (the murder, or sex, or even the ping-ponging of fear), and is much more comfortable in transcribing aimless dorm-room paranoia or the TV shows that the malefactors anesthetize themselves with as fate ticks down. In the bizarre post-apocalyptic world of Borne, time and space have been twisted by the works of all-encompassing biotech enterprise The Company.Thomas Stafford quickly broke out emergency oxygen masks and put one on Brand and gave one to Deke Slayton. A Mobius strip of a novel, with each chapter containing worlds upon nested worlds, all of them dreamlike and dark. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report.

Before being selected for a Gemini crew, Freeman was flying a T-38 jet trainer on landing approach to Ellington AFB near Houston, Texas, when a goose struck the left side of the cockpit canopy. The flight director decided that they would have to remain in orbit an extra day (a full revolution of the Earth), so they could determine what the problem was.An unexploded SOFAR bomb, designed for sound fixing and ranging in case the craft sank, had failed and had to be dealt with when it was recovered from the ocean floor in 1999. Most of the time we’re not sure what version of the city we’re in, except when the text includes an actual version number, as if reality itself is a mess of repeatedly patched software. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. During launch, the Solid Rocket Booster ignition shock wave overpressure was four times greater than expected (2.