Should a day in orbit be part of the curriculum? A prize-winning book about astronauts suggests that living on a satellite can change people's perspective.
Novel set in space wins major award
Anxious: Samantha Harvey (above) nearly gave up writing her novel Orbital which follows the day-to-day lives of astronauts as they hurtle through the universe at 17,500mp. “I am so spectacularly not an astronaut. I’m so unadventurous, so unaudacious, so impractical, cowardly ...I would be terrible,” she says.