Titan

Was reading Stephen Baxter's Titan! My god what a novel. The first 100 pages start with the destruction of the Columbia. In a way that's not too different from what actually happened. This guy is a visionary man! And this was nearly 5 years or more before. What a man! In retrospect, it was such a well known secret that Columbia was one completely old wreck. So why the shit did Nasa persevere with it? The part about one Indian dying was also right. Yeah! he got the Chinese program wrong but not by much by my accounts. Good read but not as good as his Vacuum digrams.