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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: Final Orbit by Chris Hadfield read by Ray Porter
Description: From the author of the international bestseller The Apollo Murders comes an edge-of-the seat Cold War thriller, set against the backdrop of the real 1970s “Space race” between the US, USSR, and China.
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 onboard the orbiting spacecraft changes everything.
Meanwhile, from a remote location in east Asia, the first Chinese spacecraft secretly launches. On boar...