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| Jacket design by Nancy Merritt |
| BACK TO THE MOON Homer H. Hickam Jr. New York: Delacorte Press, June 1999 |
Rating: 4.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-385-33422-8 | ||||
| ISBN 0-385-33422-2 | 447pp. | HC | $23.95 | |
| Page 113: | "Grant screamed off the Cape runway in her T-38 and rocked into the cool dense morning air. An hour later she streaked past Kitty Hawk, throttled back over the Potomac, and landed at Andrews Air Force Base. A sedan with the NASA meatball symbol on its doors waited for her on the tarmac. Lights flashing, its driver sped her out of the airport, heading east to Camp David." |
| Direction: Camp David lies about 62 miles north-northwest of Andrews AFB, in western Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. |
| Page 165: | "Shirley went back to her cubicle, sat down at her computer and stacks of books and memos and articles." |
| Wording: S/B "amid". |
| Page 174: | "Bonner walked up the steel griddled steps, each footstep ringing hollowly." |
| Spelling, punctuation: S/B "steel-gridded". |
| Page 255: | "Carl Puckett directed his limo driver to park in front of the Jetfire Arcade in San Jose, California, just off El Camino Real, the main drag." |
| Street names: In San Jose, such a place would have to be on Santa Clara Street. Heading west toward Sunnyvale, it becomes The Alameda and then El Camino Real. |
| Page 258: | "At Sunnyvale, Puckett cracked the window enough for Starbuck to direct the driver to turn towards the mountains. Across the river and into the first patch of forest..." |
| Directing the driver toward the mountains is plausible, though Starbuck would have to tell him to turn south on Mathilda Avenue, which becomes Sunnyvale-Saratoga Highway, since the mountains are too far to be easily seen from there. (Those would be the Santa Cruz Mountains.) However, there is no river to cross on that route. |
| Pages 260-263: | "Project Farside" |
| It's, like, too far-fetched, man. |
| Page 266: | "She was a graduate of the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force base, California, and had more than five thousand hours in forty different high-performance aircraft, not to mention her flights into space aboard the shuttle." |
| I think Hickam here gilds the Grant lily way too much. |
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