Rescue mode
By: Ben Bova, Les Johnson
Contributors: Johnson, Les (Charles Les), author
Publisher: Baen
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Riverdale, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9781476781037
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Fiction; Exploration; Interplanetary voyages; Planets; Astronauts
Description: "The first human mission to Mars meets with near-disaster when a meteoroid strikes the spacecraft, almost destroying it. The ship is too far from Earth to simply turn around and return home. The eight-person crew must ride their crippled ship to Mars while they desperately struggle to survive. On Earth, powerful political forces that oppose human spaceflight try to use the accident as proof that sending humans into space is too dangerous to continue. The whole human space flight program hangs in the balance. And if the astronauts can't nurse their ship to Mars and back, the voyagers will become either the first Martian colonists--or the first humans to perish on another planet"--
Notes: "Baen Books original."--Title page verso.