Orbit
I found this interesting book in the library last week. They had very few books in their ‘new’ shelf. But this one looked interesting. And since they are talking about private space craft going up in the next few years I thought it was very appropriate.
The book is ORBIT by John J. Nance. About your average guy who won a trip on a private shuttle. It doesn’t go to ‘outer space’ but low ‘Earth orbit’.  Things happen to passengers so ultimately it’s just our guy and the pilot that goes up. It’s supposed to be a 6 hour tour passing around the world several times. But a meteorite hits the shuttle making for an interesting situation. The rest of the book tells the story of what happens to the shuttle and the two men in it.
The book is interesting, doesn’t boggle you down with too many statistics as some would. Kept my interest and I read it in two days.
I know that I surely wouldn’t want to be one of the first to go up in a shuttle. In fact, knowing me I probably wouldn’t ever want to. An airplane is about as high as I want to go. These shuttle trips are ranging from $250,000 to over a million. Sure could do a lot with that kind of money.