Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

A supposedly realistic story about a rush-job trip to a moon of Saturn. It has tons of actual realistic details, so you think the author really knows his stuff. But then it leaves HUGE, horrible, impossible gaping holes that just make you want to gag. First, the mission "training" consists only of a few medical test. Supposedly the mission is rushed for budget reasons ... supposedly just like the Apollo program. But Apollo, as much of a deadline as it had, spent months and months training the crew -- all together, for each task. But the crew of this ship don't even meet each other until a few days before they take off. The author didn't have to take you through the boring details of training. He could have mentioned it in a few paragraphs. But instead, he makes a point that there was no specific training at all for the mission tasks. Then: Apparently NASA doesn't bother to even send telemetry from the very critical supply ship back to earth. So a huge, horrible problem that happens doesn't even get a chance to be known by the main crew until months after it happens (this could have been fixed by merely changing a few dates in the text -- but it was left as a huge hole.) And almost worst of all, NASA doesn't send (for privacy reasons, I guess?? which is ludicrous) medical information on the crew back to earth. Oh, and don't look for any character development or interesting things like that. Just "they went and did this ... and then this ... and then this life-threatening problem happens and they don't even talk to NASA about it ..." and so forth. As bad as NASA is sometimes, considering the causes of two Shuttle disasters and the inefficiencies of some of their development projects, their incompetence is nothing like what is implied by this book.