The Day the War Struck Home

Astronaut Peter Caudell comes home to find his daughter struggling with a school assignment. She's to write an essay for Memorial Day, and her teacher has suggeted astronauts -- but she wants to write about combat heroes, nto REMF's. So Peter suggests the NASA Massacre, and relates his own experiences.

It's the summer of 1994 and the Energy Wars are raging in the Middle East. On the home front, it's the Summer of Fear, a season of continual terrorist attacks. All eyes are upon Kennedy Space...