Final Orbit
with Chris Hadfield
Hosted by Alan Neal
In Person Fiction
The action is hot and realistic and you can smell the grease on the guns. . . . Action is the name of Hadfield’s game and he delivers.
CBC Radio’s Alan Neal hosts #1 bestselling author and astronaut Chris Hadfield, in celebration of his latest novel, Final Orbit, an edge-of-your-seat thriller set about China's secret role in the 1970s Space Race between the US and the USSR. Tickets include a copy of the book. Please note that this event will not be livestreamed.
Houston, 1975. A new Apollo mission launches into orbit, on course to dock with a Russian Soyuz craft: three NASA astronauts and three cosmonauts, joining to celebrate a new dawn of Soviet-American cooperation. But as NASA Flight Controller Kaz Zemeckis listens in from Earth, a deadly accident changes everything.
Meanwhile, from a remote location in East Asia, the first Chinese spacecraft secretly launches. On board is China’s first astronaut, Fang Guojun, whose mission puts him on a collision course with the Apollo crew. As Kaz races against an enemy on the ground and for answers beyond the sky, the safety of the remaining crew hangs in the balance…
Full of intrigue and real history—including the fascinating story of Professor Tsien Hsue-shen, the “Father of Chinese Rocketry” and founder of China’s space program—Final Orbit accelerates to a thrilling conclusion that captures the beauty and terror of survival 270 miles above Earth, as could only be written by one of the most experienced astronauts alive.
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