Status Updates From Lost in Outer Space: The In...

This section of 34 pages reports on how NASA's 'smartest' people debated on which option would be the safest and quickest to have their astronauts return back to Earth. I got a bit lost due to NASA's terms such as LOS (Loss of Signal) which occasionally made it a bit more difficult to understand communication with the astronauts and the commanders in NASA's operational area in Houston.

NASA engineers and computer programers are described to try to keep a positive mindset of "When you leave this room, you must leave believing that this crew is coming home" (Olson 95). I believe this section is very interesting since we get to see the perspective of the computer minds instead of the protagonistic characters, the astronauts.

From my last update, we learn how the rocket's crew and their commanders on the ground try and troubleshoot an evolving problem that could potentially threaten their lives. I find this section very interesting when learning the development of the rocket's problem.

From the beginning, author Tod Olson gives extreme depths of detail of the process of the upcoming weeks of a spacecraft launch and how much media the families received. I enjoyed reading about the processes and time frames in which astronauts have to take place. I also enjoyed how the book included some images of previous spacecraft.