Literally the Best Reviews: Bringing Columbia Home

Bringing Columbia Home -- Michael D. Leinbach & Jonathan H. Ward

Arcade Publishing

400 Pages

It only seems appropriate that as I write this review, we are on the cusp of observing the fifteenth anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. I pre-ordered this book from Amazon when I saw it while searching for John Young’s autobiography. As a self-avowed space enthusiast, I tend to read any book I can find on the American Space Program. This book came last week, obviously timed to the anniversary of the accident. I finished it just last night, and it is easily the freshest book I’ve ever reviewed.

In Memory of John Young

After a weekend full of hockey, I sat down Sunday evening to take a look at the news I had missed for the last few days. After filtering through all the news about the Bills and something about an awards show, I saw that John Young died. Who was John Young?

Godspeed, John Glenn

I just read the news this morning that John Glenn was in the hospital for an undisclosed illness, but that it was not cancer despite being admitted to a cancer hospital. I think the biggest surprise for me was that John Glenn was 95. Somehow, these heroes from the golden age of spaceflight never seem to age in our minds beyond the black and white file footage shown on anniversaries or other significant dates.