Earth Escape (ePub)

When Quantum Propulsion is finally cracked, making faster-than-light space travel possible, it gives NASA and the European Space Agency the opportunity to launch the Evolution and its crew, on a 29 year mission to reach and colonize an exoplanet light years from our own, in the hopes of making a new home for humanity before nuclear war eviscerates Earth. Jim Tale, captain of the mission, an unorthodox astronaut and intrepid to a fault, must overcome seemingly impossible challenges to accomplish his mission; a man who is also intent on finding the truth about our existentiality: was it God, the Big Bang, or something else that made it all - and he's willing to go to the edge of the Universe to find that truth.

Herb Baker, a 40+ year veteran of NASA, who has interacted with many astronauts in his time, had this to say in his foreword to Earth Escape...
"I've been lucky enough to meet and become friends with many American astronauts over that time and following along with this book's brave, irreverent, plain-spoken astronaut Jim Tale reminded me of some of those real-life American heroes. No matter how dangerous and life-threatening their mission was, or how many unexpected complications they faced along the way, they were committed to completing their mission and always believed that the rewards were worth the risks."
- Herb Baker