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Summary: Excellent, moving, inspirational.
Review: Rick Husband exemplified a life well lived.
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Summary: Keep Your Life All Systems Go!
Review: The book showed how to live until the day you die and how not to let anything stand in the way of God's appointed purpose for your life. She explained that she may not understand God's plan for Rick's life, but that she is not bitter toward God because of the history of God's faithfulness, provision and grace. She makes you realize that Jesus knows our pain because of his pain of dying on the cross.
I loved this line regarding his commander abilities: Leadership is not only about what you do, but what you do next.
My favorite part of the book is the letter Kathie Scobee Fulgham, Dick Scobee's daughter from the Challenger disaster, sent the children of the Columbia victims. Beautiful, beautiful writing!
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Summary: Very Poignant
Review: This book makes you laugh; it makes you cry; and it makes you reflect. I could not put this book down! Evelyn Husband's faith and her love for her husband, Rick, was an inspiration to me. It's her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ that got her through such a heartbreaking, devastating tragedy.She described in such depth the details of there life and his death: She takes you inside her head and heart, however, she did leave out what it was that caused Rick so much grief early in their marriage, but that's okay. Overall I thought it was a very good book and would recommend it to everyone.
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Summary: Recounts the Columbia Tragedy Historically and Personally
Review: This book provides both an account of the Columbia breakup in February 2003 as well as Rick Husband's wife and childrens' reaction to the tragic loss of their husband and father. The book begins with the family expectantly waiting for Columbia to land, then sensing that something is wrong based on the behavior of the people near the landing site. We then learn of Rick's life, and how the family's faith in Jesus Christ had been so important in their lives. We also learn how Evelyn Husband had to tell her children that their father had tragically died.
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Summary: Very Poignant
Review: Three reasons to read Evelyn Husband's biography about Rick Husband:
1. Learn more about the final commander of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
2. This is a space story told from a spouse's point of view.
3. Witness Rick and Evelyn Husband's Christian faith. I purchased this book to learn more about Rick Husband. I should have expected that the book would tell of the current space program from a spouse's perspective. Most importantly, she describes Rick's journey with Christ. In the telling, she witnesses for Christ, too. There are no indictments against NASA in this book. The author bluntly states that she harbors no ill will towards NASA. She has faith that Rick Husband would not have remained in the program if he had any concerns of risk management at NASA. Overall, "High Calling" is a faith story. The first half is tragic. Rick Husband's life is described while the reader knows how it will end. The last half is Evelyn Husband's testimony to being a widow of a national televised disaster. My heart ached as she described her family's life since 9:00 am Saturday, February 1, 2003. Thank goodness she has been granted some lighter moments. Her tale of using the President's handkerchief to wipe her son's nose brought a smile back to me.
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Summary: Heartbreaking
Review: Three reasons to read Evelyn Husband's biography about Rick Husband:
1. Learn more about the final commander of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
2. This is a space story told from a spouse's point of view.
3. Witness Rick and Evelyn Husband's Christian faith. I purchased this book to learn more about Rick Husband. I should have expected that the book would tell of the current space program from a spouse's perspective. Most importantly, she describes Rick's journey with Christ. In the telling, she witnesses for Christ, too. There are no indictments against NASA in this book. The author bluntly states that she harbors no ill will towards NASA. She has faith that Rick Husband would not have remained in the program if he had any concerns of risk management at NASA. Overall, "High Calling" is a faith story. The first half is tragic. Rick Husband's life is described while the reader knows how it will end. The last half is Evelyn Husband's testimony to being a widow of a national televised disaster. My heart ached as she described her family's life since 9:00 am Saturday, February 1, 2003. Thank goodness she has been granted some lighter moments. Her tale of using the President's handkerchief to wipe her son's nose brought a smile back to me.
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Summary: Step inside a high-profile news story.
Review: TV news covered the Columbia breakup relentlessly, yet we haven't heard much from the families of the astronauts involved. This book fills the void by retelling the Husband's marriage and family life. It's a bit narrow in its scope - it's really not about NASA or the space shuttle program but only about Rick Husband's personal life as told by his wife. I like that she made the book very personal, but it could be a bit too syrupy for some readers (she still calls her father Daddy and she's in her forties - maybe it's a Texas thing. Grandpa and Grandma are GaGa and Gammy - most adults would gag at this.). I wish she would have said SOMETHING negative about her life prior to the accident, but unfortunately everything is retold as her husband being the best at this and the best at that, and it makes the story not ring true. A nice effort at using his passing to remind people that God should be first in your life.
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