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High Calling: The Courageous Life and Faith of Space Shuttle Columbia Commander Rick Husband
Evelyn Husband
3.83 AVERAGE
4 reviews for:
High Calling: The Courageous Life and Faith of Space Shuttle Columbia Commander Rick Husband
Evelyn Husband
3.83 AVERAGE
It is quite a book to end the year on. It is not only a testimony of his faith in God, but it is a demonstration of the manner in which God sustained his wife in difficult circumstances.
224 pages, biography/nonfiction/space
Evelyn Husband is the widow of Rick Husband, commander of the 2003 Columbia Challenger that fell apart while coming home over the sky of Texas. This touching tribute to Rick's life, family, and ultimately, his faith, will have you in tears with Evelyn's raw vulnerability.
This book was so tough to read. Rick had what many other astronauts don't have (at least from the books I've read...see The Last Man on the Moon by Eugene Cernan) - morals and values. His faith and his family was the priority, even over his dream career as an astronaut. This book is inspirational and leaves you weeping at not only what the space program lost, but what Evelyn, Laura, and Matthew lost in a husband and dad. This book is incredibly personal and through it, you see God working in Rick's family.
I just don't really have words to describe this amazing book. If you are interested in space, history that happened in your lifetime (I remember watching this on TV), a true portrait of what living faith looks like, a story of grief and hope in the midst of tragedy, read this book. It was incredible.
10 of 10 for...enjoyment is the wrong word, and 3 of 5 for readability. Man the last 1/3 was ROUGH to read. Tears. Multiple times. Yet I do highly recommend this book.
-Holly
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Evelyn Husband is the widow of Rick Husband, commander of the 2003 Columbia Challenger that fell apart while coming home over the sky of Texas. This touching tribute to Rick's life, family, and ultimately, his faith, will have you in tears with Evelyn's raw vulnerability.
This book was so tough to read. Rick had what many other astronauts don't have (at least from the books I've read...see The Last Man on the Moon by Eugene Cernan) - morals and values. His faith and his family was the priority, even over his dream career as an astronaut. This book is inspirational and leaves you weeping at not only what the space program lost, but what Evelyn, Laura, and Matthew lost in a husband and dad. This book is incredibly personal and through it, you see God working in Rick's family.
I just don't really have words to describe this amazing book. If you are interested in space, history that happened in your lifetime (I remember watching this on TV), a true portrait of what living faith looks like, a story of grief and hope in the midst of tragedy, read this book. It was incredible.
10 of 10 for...enjoyment is the wrong word, and 3 of 5 for readability. Man the last 1/3 was ROUGH to read. Tears. Multiple times. Yet I do highly recommend this book.
-Holly
For more reviews, check out bedroopedbookworms.wordpress.com!
I have the goal of reading every astronaut autobiography and eventually every other book by an astronaut. Obviously when tragedy strikes they don't write books, so I have extended that list is to include books by family. At one point in my life I was certain that I wanted to be an astronaut, but along the line I was discouraged by others and by the long odds. Additionally, I had no clue how expansive NASA, but I didn't want to work in close proximity to the astronauts, and didn't consider becoming an engineer. All of this led me to distance myself from following the space program. Still I remember the Columbia disaster- I was in my dorm room and saw a blurb pop-up on a news banner on some website, and so I scrambles downstairs to the arch the news on the TV. At some point I had to leave to go to the cafeteria and get lunch before it closed, and I watched some news there. Later I remember Evelyn and Rick Husband being mentioned in chapel because of their faith. I feel like later when this book came out we even did a short teleconference with her, but I may just be recalling her in interviews. Having said that it could have been her co-author too, because she is an alumni of my college (Cedarville University), and spoke at least one time in chapel and we also watched several video ads for some of her book releases and the horrible The Christmas Shoes Hallmark adaptation of her book. [This is as much because of personal experience with my mother-in-law being diagnosed and later passing from cancer around Christmas ('03 & '10 respectively). The movie and song came out the year she was diagnosed, if I remember correctly, and seemed to come on at the worst times, like heading to an appointment or to the nursing home the morning she passed.] My distance from the program, as well as the tragedy of the whole thing led me to avoid the book for a long while. By the time I was interested in getting around to reading it, I had trouble find a copy in print or on audio. Recently in doing a broad library search for astronaut autobiographies, I managed to find this one and read it as soon as it was available. It was good, but its focus wasn't really on him as an astronaut. His time as an astronaut was there, but the book mostly focuses on family life, their faith, and coping with the tragedy. Very little was said about his missions as an astronaut or the accident itself. Listening to it as an audiobook had both pros and cons. The upside was that actual audio and recordings were used at times, especially President Bush's eulogy and some music. On the other hand, because it was read by the author, Evelyn- his wife, her emotion came through strongly in the most tragic and emotional times of the story and that made it very hard to listen to at times. Overall, it was a good short read, and his faith is inspiring, but I wished it had gotten into more details about his career.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
I found this book at a thrift store and picked it up because I had watched a documentary about Columbia recently. This was about Commander Rick Husband, as the title clearly states, and was written by his wife. I enjoyed learning about his life and how he started his journey to becoming an astronaut. It was heartbreaking to see how his death impacted his family, friends, and coworkers. People all over the country and world were gutted by this tragedy and the aftermath and facts that subsequently came to light. This was a decent book, and I would suggest it to anyone who is interested in the space program, however it was not the best book I read this particular year.