After the Tragedy of the space shuttle CHALLENGER, the technicians of NASA hoped to create a failsafe shuttle, incapable of malfunctioning. With the space shuttle LIGHTNING, all systems were go . . . then lightning struck twice. America's greatest technological achievement has been sabotaged. First, an engine malfunctions. Then, another. Now the LIGHTNING is desperately trying to land, racing against time--and a powerful, unseen enemy will do anything to make the first flight of LIGHTNING its last . . .
"There can be no thought of finishing, for 'aiming at the stars,' both literally and figuratively, is a problem to occupy generations, so that no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning." --Dr. Robert Goddard
