burnette@ingr.com (Lesley Burnette) (04/11/90)
I just started reading this group, so forgive me if this is a repeat or non- kosher. I just finished reading a book by Payne Stewart (I think - but that is the name of a golfer, so I could be wrong) called Storming Intrepid. It is about a russian agent getting control of a space shuttle that has the final and most secret and important piece of the SDI platform. He is going to fly it back down into Russia. So the Americans are rushing to get him and the russians are rushing to get him, as the ship (Intrepid) gets cripled in space. It is quite qood because it gives lots of info on the military uses of the space programs, and lots of info on the Russian shuttle and space program. I recommend it as good fiction for anyone who likes to read about the shuttle. Lesley.
tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) (04/11/90)
In article <9687@ingr.com> burnette@ingr.UUCP (Lesley Burnette) writes: >I just finished reading a book ... about a >russian agent getting control of a space shuttle that has the final and most >secret and important piece of the SDI platform. Well, that's how you can tell it's fiction. Only a casual fictionsmith would even dare to suggest that SDI might ever be permitted to have a "final" component. To think of program completion is to misunderstand SDI altogether! :-) -- US out of North America, NOW!! /: Tom Neff -- Richard O'Rourke :/ tneff%bfmny0@UUNET.UU.NET
jwaid@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (James Waid) (04/11/90)
I also just finished that book. I was at Chicago O'Hare and got decided to get something to keep me occupied on my upcomming flight, so I pick up this book and couldn't put it down. As a student studing a lot about avionics I found this book to be outstanding, I want more!!! I don't normally read books in my leasure time, but this book may change my mind. Does anyone have any suggestions on books simular to Storming Intrepid that I could read, or authors that write books like this. Send them to me email please. By the way the guys name is Payne Harrison. thanks, Jim
pjs@aristotle.JPL.NASA.gov (Peter Scott) (04/11/90)
In article <9687@ingr.com>, burnette@ingr.com (Lesley Burnette) writes: > I just finished reading a book by Payne Stewart (I think - but that is the name > of a golfer, so I could be wrong) called Storming Intrepid. It is about a > russian agent getting control of a space shuttle that has the final and most > secret and important piece of the SDI platform. He is going to fly it back down > into Russia. So the Americans are rushing to get him and the russians are > rushing to get him, as the ship (Intrepid) gets cripled in space. The author is Payne Harrison, and I was recommended to the book about 6 months ago by a netter. I loved it. It's Tom Clancy in space. This is news. This is your | Peter Scott, NASA/JPL/Caltech brain on news. Any questions? | (pjs@aristotle.jpl.nasa.gov)