Orbital Dan Santat When a young boy visits

When a young boy visits his grandfather

Eagerly awaited and eight years in the making

* The Couch Potato

Though the two girls are immediately at odds

a man with only his wits to rely on

Orbital Dan Santat When a young boy visitsA slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonautsfrom America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japanhave left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly