Rocket engineer Jack Medaris, having failed in his attempt to build a machine that would travel to the moon and collect an isotope desperately needed to produce energy on Earth, and hoping to redeem himself for what he sees as a personal failure, highjacks the space shuttle Columbia and heads for the lunar surface.
year: 2000
call number/section: 1000
subjects: space shuttles, fiction, aerospace engineers, engineers, science fiction, moon, exploration, fiction