It's 1995, and returning cosmonauts Babette and Misha face a tumultuous three weeks of travel, passion, deception, and foreign intrigue---testing the relationship that was forbidden from the start. The attractive French scientist Dr. Babette Bescond and dashing Russian commander Misha Sokolov's romantic entanglement intertwines their professional and personal lives and could impact their careers. In A Space Oddity, author Larry Andrews follows their Shuttle Endeavor rescue from Russian space station Mir, a debriefing at a ...
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It's 1995, and returning cosmonauts Babette and Misha face a tumultuous three weeks of travel, passion, deception, and foreign intrigue---testing the relationship that was forbidden from the start. The attractive French scientist Dr. Babette Bescond and dashing Russian commander Misha Sokolov's romantic entanglement intertwines their professional and personal lives and could impact their careers. In A Space Oddity, author Larry Andrews follows their Shuttle Endeavor rescue from Russian space station Mir, a debriefing at a famed Colorado Springs hotel, cross-country travel to New York, and on to their respective home countries as heroes. They are unexpectedly called to reunite in Russia where they delve into the complications and implications of an unanticipated space pregnancy. Here Bebette encounters a Russian family secret-life backdrop never imagined. Concurrently, the discovery that procreation in space is possible sets competing countries on different agendas to gain firsthand information on the developing fetus that may exist. Misha endeavors to protect Babette from the continuing threats of those trying to gain access to what she carries. An innovative escape from Russia to Paris may be the ultimate solution.
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