Dead Astronauts - Softcover

Wilson, Woodrow

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1609102908 ISBN 13: 9781609102906

Publisher: Booklocker.Com Inc, 2010

Traveling a hundred times as fast as Apollo, the nearest star is a millennium away. What if aliens from there tried to come here? A lot can go wrong in a thousand years. An interstellar probe decelerates into earth orbit. Nothing happens. An astronaut team discovers why. Its crew died in transit. Exposed to whatever killed the aliens, can NASA let the explorers come home? Quarantined and running out of air, how can they survive?

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From the Back Cover:

Interstellar Flight

If Moses had launched the Lost Tribe of Israel into space at Apollo speeds, they would be a quarter of a light year away today. They would still need another eighty thousand years to reach our nearest neighbor star. A lot can go wrong in eighty thousand years.

If Moses could have launched them ten times as fast, they would be over half way there by now. At a hundred times as fast, the trip would still last the better part of a millennium.

Moses couldn’t do that then. We can’t do it now. Maybe our neighbors could. What if they did? Even a thousand years can be a long time. A lot could happen along the way?

An interstellar probe decelerates into earth orbit. Nothing happens. An astronaut team discovers why. Its crew died in transit. Exposed to whatever killed them and coming down with something, can NASA let the astronauts come home? Quarantined and running out of air, how long can they last?

About the Author:

Woodrow Wilson is a Caltech PhD with more than thirty years experience in research and development for the military and intelligence communities. He has explored space and other exotic environments in the laboratory and in the computer. He contributed to the design and testing of space-based and ground-based anti-ballistic missile defenses. He has studied chemistry at 10,000�F, 30,000 mph collisions, plus fires and explosions in zero gravity, the aurora borealis, and more. Wilson’s work in military applications of space puts the science in this hard science fiction work Dead Astronauts.

His interests are eclectic. He published The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook offering restaurant quality meals without quality restaurant prices. He is a Distinguished Toastmaster, and a Toastmaster District executive. He has addressed scientific meetings in Russia and Germany, and throughout North America. He addresses general audiences on technical and historical topics.

Wilson lives in northern San Diego County with his wife and their two yellow labs. His two sons and four grandsons live nearby. He is working on his next novel, The Utah Flu, a medical fiction piece.

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