The Hohmann Transfer

By Tom Sylvester

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158112807X
• ISBN13: 9781581128079
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Brown Walker Pr
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.9" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

It's tough to put down......

The first book by this author, The Descent: a novel showed he had the talent to twist and turn a tale. His secord work is excellent showing growth as a writer and master with the written word. The facts can easily turn the reader into a rocket scientist without a doubt.Once read you will realize that he took more than a few ideas and spun his tale. The author did his research. It is refreshing to see a new author taking the time to get the facts straight.His second effort has me looking forward to his next work.

Rocket science thriller

This is an excellent book for the tech head who loves science and anything related to the space shuttle. The details of working the shuttle are amazing clear and really make you feel as if you are in the drivers seat. The astrophysics end of the book are complicated enough that after reading it you'll feel like a rocket scientist. Great effort from such an early writer.

Can't put it down. Truly real and captivating to the end!

Syl was a high school classmate of mine and always had a very imaginative mind and certainly an attention to detail during those cadet years! He's gone beyond all in writing the Hohmann Transfer. I can't believe the detail and wonderful story line to go along with the plotting and scheming of the great cast of characters. The research has certainly been done, and those-in-the-know are amazed at the accuracy and detail depicting the situation with the satellite. I thank Syl for pursuing his great talent and writing a second book after The Descent. I've been waiting. . .

Go into space with Sara Peal to repair a wounded satellite.

The title of this work is the name of a maneuver used to change the orbit of satellites. That maneuver is the only hope Sara Peal has left after she boards the space shuttle to go up and fix a satellite she helped design. A discredited American financier has been making deals with Russian criminals in what is left of the old Soviet Union's space effort. It is their mission to sabotage the satellite designed by Sara Peal and keep it from entering orbit properly. When the American satellite burns up in the atmosphere, the Russian companies will benefit greatly. Sara has always been dominated by men, starting with her father, an important United States Congressman who secured her an appointment to the USAF Academy. At the academy her classmates hazed her unmercifully. To show them all, Sara excelled in Aerospace Engineering. The Russians were disappointed when they learn Sara's gentleman friend, another Aerospace Engineer will be going up to fix the wounded satellite. He starts out in his private plane from California to Houston, but is hijacked by two killers. They leave him for dead to fly out over the Pacific Ocean and use their parachutes to escape the airplane. You have to watch every little clue in this mystery, beginning with the last radio transmission from the doomed Aerospace Engineer's private airplane. He says words that tell NASA about his predicament. When Sara's friend, the pilot, is found to have been rescued by a sailboat his plane smashed into, she is delighted. The man was able to engage the autopilot. The story moves from the Aerospace Industry in California by way of Houston and the launch site in Florida to orbit in space. Sylvester excels at character description and the tensions between people. Like a patient and sympathetic college professor, he makes aviation and space things understandable to the unsophisticated reader. Tom Sylvester's tales are similar to Tom Clancy's style, but move along faster. Tom Clancy only guesses. This author has been there, done that. He is a graduate from the USAF Academy, former rocket scientist and now a pilot with Northwest Airlines. The FBI do their usual thorough job of rounding up the criminals. The good guys are some Cosmonauts already in orbit in the Russian Space Station. We are left wondering exactly what the bad Russians did to sabotage the satellite and if Sara ever repaired it after the Hohmann Transfer maneuver. * * *