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Title: High Calling : The Courageous Life and Faith of Space Shuttle Columbia Commander Rick Husband by Evelyn Husband, Donna VanLiere ISBN: 0-7852-6195-8 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 11 January, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Heartbreaking
Comment: Three reasons to read Evelyn Husband's biography about Rick Husband:
1. Learn more about the final commander of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
2. This is a space story told from a spouse's point of view.
3. Witness Rick and Evelyn Husband's Christian faith.
I purchased this book to learn more about Rick Husband. I should have expected that the book would tell of the current space program from a spouse's perspective. Most importantly, she describes Rick's journey with Christ. In the telling, she witnesses for Christ, too.
There are no indictments against NASA in this book. The author bluntly states that she harbors no ill will towards NASA. She has faith that Rick Husband would not have remained in the program if he had any concerns of risk management at NASA.
Overall, "High Calling" is a faith story. The first half is tragic. Rick Husband's life is described while the reader knows how it will end. The last half is Evelyn Husband's testimony to being a widow of a national televised disaster. My heart ached as she described her family's life since 9:00 am Saturday, February 1, 2003. Thank goodness she has been granted some lighter moments. Her tale of using the President's handkerchief to wipe her son's nose brought a smile back to me.
Rating: 5
Summary: Keep Your Life All Systems Go!
Comment: The book showed how to live until the day you die and how not to let anything stand in the way of God's appointed purpose for your life. She explained that she may not understand God's plan for Rick's life, but that she is not bitter toward God because of the history of God's faithfulness, provision and grace. She makes you realize that Jesus knows our pain because of his pain of dying on the cross.
I loved this line regarding his commander abilities: Leadership is not only about what you do, but what you do next.
My favorite part of the book is the letter Kathie Scobee Fulgham, Dick Scobee's daughter from the Challenger disaster, sent the children of the Columbia victims. Beautiful, beautiful writing!
Rating: 5
Summary: Remarkable story of a remarkable man
Comment: Reviewer: CHARLES B VANCE from Kalamazoo, MI United States
Being a forty something male born in the era of sputnick, the life and dream of becoming an astronaut were mine as well. Rick Husband did more however than merely dream about being an astronaut, he did it!
His dream never "owned" him, he accomplished his lofty goal while keeping God and family in their proper order, as a matter of fact Rick Husband grew into a man of God during his voyage to fulfillment of that dream.
This book is the telling of that story through the eyes of his biggest fan, a loving and devoted wife, "Evey". I found the book to be a thrill to read, I simply "could not put it down".
Rick Husband truly answered a "Higher Calling".
Must read.....
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Title: Comm Check... : The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia by Michael Cabbage, William Harwood ISBN: 0743260910 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 27 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Sixteen Minutes from Home: The Columbia Space Shuttle Tragedy by Mark Cantrell, Donald Vaughan ISBN: 1932270108 Publisher: AMI Books Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Faith of George W. Bush by Stephen Mansfield ISBN: 1585423092 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon by Colin Burgess, Kate Doolan, Bert Vis ISBN: 0803262124 Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Bringing Elizabeth Home : A Journey of Faith and Hope by Ed Smart, Lois Smart ISBN: 0385512147 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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