{"102661":{"#nid":"102661","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Author Les Johnson, \u0022Back to the Moon\u0022","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELes Johnson is a NASA physicist, manager, author, husband and father. By day, he serves as the Deputy Manager for the Advanced Concepts Office at the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.  In his spare time he writes science and science fiction. His latest book is a novel, \u0022Back to the Moon.\u0022\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELes will visit the Georgia Tech bookstore to discuss and sign copies of his novel. Free to the public.\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESynopsis:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDecades after the last footprints were left on the Moon, the U.S. was preparing to return to the Lunar surface, when the mission suddenly became much more urgent. It would have to be a rescue mission.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUnbeknownst to the rest of the world, China had sent its own Lunar expedition. A manned expedition. Until a distress call was received, no human outside of China even knew that the mission was manned -- or that their ship had crash-landed and couldn\u2019t take off again.\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETime was running out, and if the four Chinese astronauts were to be rescued, the American lunar mission would have to launch immediately, with a only a skeleton crew. Once the U.S. astronauts were underway the army of engineers and scientists back home had the daunting task of deciding what equipment could be left on the Moon to permit the lunar landar to lift safely from the Moon with the two U.S. astronauts and the four stranded Chinese taikonauts!  Could the U.S. mount such a mission successfully -- and would thousands of years of instilled honor \u201callow\u201d the Chinese astronauts to accept a rescue?\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELes Johnson is a NASA physicist who serves as the Deputy Manager for the Advanced Concepts Office at the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. In his spare time he writes science and science fiction. His latest book is a novel, \u0022Back to the Moon.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"NASA physicist holds discussion and book signing at campus bookstore"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2012-02-02 11:41:36","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:57:48","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-02-16T16:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-02-16T17:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-02-16T17:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-02-16 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-02-16 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-02-16 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"102681":{"id":"102681","type":"image","title":"\u0022Back to the Moon\u0022","body":null,"created":"1449178174","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:29:34","changed":"1475894723","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:23","alt":"\u0022Back to the Moon\u0022","file":{"fid":"193963","name":"cover.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cover_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cover_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":65300,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/cover_1.jpg?itok=Azpz6T7W"}}},"media_ids":["102681"],"groups":[{"id":"1182","name":"General"},{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"},{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"3257","name":"author"},{"id":"3292","name":"Bookstore"},{"id":"3747","name":"literature"},{"id":"4276","name":"novel"},{"id":"167171","name":"science fiction"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1792","name":"Arts and Performance"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}