Out of Orbit The Incredible True Story of

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. With the launch program suspended indefinitely, these astronauts, who were already near the end of a fourteen-week mission, had suddenly lost their ride home.

CHRIS JONES joined Esquire as a contributing editor and sports columnist, and became a Writer at Large when he won the 2005 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing for the story that became the basis for this book. Previously he was a sportswriter at the National Post, where he won an award as Canada’s outstanding young journalist. His work has also appeared in The Best American Magazine Writing and The Best American Sports Writing anthologies. He lives in Ottawa, Canada.

Prologue	p. 1
Simple Machines	p. 7
The Other Side of the Envelope	p. 33
The Geography of Isolation	p. 71
Time and Distance	p. 96
Gone	p. 129
The Best Parts of Lonely	p. 151
Earthshine	p. 180
A Thin Thread	p. 187
Mission Control	p. 208
"I Think We're in Trouble"	p. 226
The Weight of the World	p. 260
Epilogue	p. 281
Acknowledgments	p. 285
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Out of Orbit The Incredible True Story of Three Astronauts Who Were Hundreds of Miles Above Earth When They Lost Their Ride Home

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