Out of Orbit: The Incredible True Story of Three Astronauts Who Were Hundreds of Miles Above Earth With No Way Home

By Chris Jones

On February 1, 2003, the nation was stunned to watch the shuttle Columbia disintegrate into a blue-green sky. Despite the numerous new reports surrounding the tragedy, the public remained largely unaware that three men, U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox, and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin, remained orbiting Earth


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