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Book Review of Orbit

Orbit
Orbit
Author: Thomas H. Block
Book Type: Paperback
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Back cover: The ultimate air disaster has just happened. The engines of the supersonic STAR STREAK airliner have jammed open and Consolidated Flight 14 has gone into orbit! Ninety-six men and women, six children and one infant are trapped in space, tumbling weightless in the cabin, with only a few hours of oxygen and one hope of survival so slim that Captain Donald Collins dares not admit it even to himself ...