Orbital
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A slender novel of epic power, Orbital? deftly
snapshots one day in the lives of six women and
men hurtling through space?not towards the
moon or the vast unknown, but around our
planet. Selected for one of the last space
station missions of its kind before the program is
dismantled, these astronauts and
cosmonauts?from America, Russia, Italy, Britain,
and Japan?have left their lives behind to travel
at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles
an hour as the earth reels below. We glimpse
moments of their earthly lives through brief
communications with family, their photos and
talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated
meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise in
regimented routines to prevent atrophying
muscles; we witness them form bonds that will
stand between them and utter solitude. Most of
all, we are with them as they behold and
record their silent blue planet. Their experiences
of sixteen sunrises and sunsets and the bright,
blinking constellations of the galaxy are at
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