Amazon says 3 stars is critical, but I view it as neutral, or 'okay'.
This is an entertaining short. But boy, do you really need to suspend belief. I mean, chuck it out the window, lock and barricade your doors, and sit in the middle of an empty room. Think (movie) Armageddon, but more ridiculous. Now you say, whaa? Stick with me. The timeline is so short and lack of training so insane, that tossing a brilliant, older engineer (Space Cowboys-ish sans space experience) into the NASA shuttle program - which has been terminated for quite some time- and expect any level of success - is well, Hollywood. BUT - the narrative is good. The theme of the story holds interest. The reason why an emergency mission to fix a telescope is so critically important - that is for you to discover. As is the adventure. The book is short - 80 pages or so - you'll fly through it.
3 of 5 stars. From the Publisher:
For nearly two decades, a top-secret NASA space telescope kept watch on the Solar System’s closest neighbor, star system Alpha Centauri, in the hopes of detecting life-sustaining planets. Inexplicably, the satellite’s orbit was beginning to decay, its mission about to come to an abrupt end as it would soon enter Earth’s upper atmosphere and vaporize. There was one man alive who could prevent the accident.
Forced by his former boss into a daring rescue mission, ex-NASA scientist Dr. Frank Carver reluctantly joins the crew of re-commissioned space shuttle Discovery, with one simple objective: recover the satellite’s secret data. He would soon discover that mission was anything but simple.
