![]() ![]() The appearance of this object encourages NASA to send one last mission - involving the last-living astronaut, Sally Jansen - to make first contact. NASA’s space exploration division has long since been shut down after a few fatal and high-profile accidents, and private companies have stepped in to fill that niche. ![]() To boil the book down to its premise, The Last Astronaut is a story about an alien object that is on course to enter Earth’s atmosphere. I thought that The Last Astronaut would be such a book, and it was… to an extent. The kind where the characters have to rely on good, old-fashioned science and hack-job engineering to get out of a jam. I’ve a bit of a soft spot for hard sci-fi stories. Out of time and options, NASA turns to its last living astronaut – Commander Sally Jansen, who must lead a team of raw recruits on a mission to make First Contact.īut as the object reveals its secrets, Jansen and her crew find themselves in a desperate struggle for survival – against the cold vacuum of space, and something far, far worse. A huge alien object has entered the solar system and is now poised above the Earth. ![]()
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