Man's Hope

The time is the present/near future. Frank Weatherly built a small custom computer company into the dominant force in the field of business computers, but his board of directors staged a takeover, and now he is a lonely widower in bitter seclusion despite his billions. David Tarrant is a US Air Force Astronaut who has been grounded, and is desperate to get back into space. David tracks Frank down and proposes an idea to get man, and himself, on a new, aggressive drive back into space. They will have to find or build a spacecraft capable of a three-year mission. Then, the crew must board a comet, and ride it through perihelion and outward to the Asteroid Belt. There, they will not only board an asteroid, they plan to bring it back to Earth! It will cost Frank his entire fortune, and even his reputation, and David must risk his life to give man a boost to the stars! Definitely "hard" science fiction! You'll wonder if it could really be done!