Life on the International Space Station - Chris Jones

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Chris Jones discusses life on the International Space Station.

Jones is the author of "Too Far From Home," the story of the astronauts stranded on the Space Station following the Columbia disaster in February 2003.

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Award winning journalist Chris Jones discusses "Too Far from Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space," an incredible, true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all - outer space.

In the nearly forty years since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, space travel has come to be seen as a routine enterprise - at least until the shuttle "Columbia" disintegrated like the "Challenger" before it, reminding us, once again, that the dangers are all too real.

"Too Far from Home" vividly captures the hazardous realities of space travel. Every time an astronaut makes the trip into space, he faces the possibility of death from the slightest mechanical error or instance of bad luck: a cracked O-ring, an errant piece of space junk, an oxygen leak . . . There are a myriad of frighteningly probable events that would result in an astronaut's death. In fact, twenty-one people who have attempted the journey have been killed.

"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, ultimately settling on a plan that felt, at best, like a long shot. - Books Inc.

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[yourjudgeandjury]

And where exactly does this supposed award winning author get his "expertise" to write a book? Is he a NASA astronaut, engineer, employee? Nope. All I hear him say is "I try to talk about...." "I try to talk about...."

The simple fact remains....I have NEVER seen his book in any bookstore. The reviews I can find online of this "book' citing his writing states it is nothing more than a simple article stretched into a book and that he did no research to get solid facts on space exploration

[vaibhav1710]

/what hpned in feb 1st

[rosario3323]

Chris Jones. You should go back to writing about life in outer space, since you live in a bubble.

You should join the Ku Kux Klan you xenophobic bastard!

[Bichito08]

Chris Jones YOU SUCK!!!

[kront310]

you know nothing about football or strategies .. donkey! follow to write about hockey and not on the history of a country they do not know and you know nothing! xenophobic ignorant!

[kront310]

chris jones racist idiot

[kypepy]

Chris Jones: spit on your face CRETINOUS.

[applesweeter]

Dear All,

I have some question about psychology:

(1) Why do we want to travel to space?

(2) What motivate us to design and to build the International Space Station (ISS)?

(3) Why do want to live in space?

(4) What are the social values represented by International Space Satation (ISS)?

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE for your creative ideas and brainstorm!!! :)

[SpartanW98]

@spookymcfuzzy study the effects of zero gravity