Godspeed (Short Story)

By Christina F. York

When Air Force One sends a mayday call, President John Glenn has only moments to make a momentous decision: Take the controls and try to save the plane? Or accept the offer to go back, change his life, and try to save the space program? He only has seconds, and lives hang in the balance. What will he choose?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tsunami Ridge Publishing
• Release date: Dec 12, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452397054

Christina F. York

Christina F. York has written short stories for Strange New Worlds and the New Frontier anthology No Limits. She frequently writes with her husband, J. Steven York. Visit her online at YorkWriters.com.

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Godspeed

Christina F. York

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Copyright 2010 Christina F. York

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Godspeed

January 28, 1986

Mayday! Mayday! This is Air Force One. There's been an explosion; we're missing part of the left wing. We are going down.

Muffled by the headphones the president had tuned to the cockpit, the pilot's voice cracked with stress. Strapped into his seat, surrounded by his Secret Service detail, President John Glenn knew the end was near.

In the midst of the crisis, he was still