{"product_id":"2940169236453","title":"Too Far From Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn incredible true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all-outer space\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a special breed of individual, the call of space is worth the risk it entails: men such as U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox, and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin, who in November 2002 left on what was to be a routine fourteen-week mission maintaining the International Space Station.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut then, on February 1, 2003, the Columbia exploded beneath them. With the launch program suspended indefinitely, these astronauts had suddenly lost their ride home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eToo Far From Home\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChris Jones writes beautifully of the majesty and mystique of space travel, while reminding us all how perilous it is to soar beyond the sky.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100557852912,"sku":"2940169236453","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169236453_p0.jpg?v=1763769139","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169236453","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}