Novelist Stephanie Osborn

Stephanie Osborn

Author of Burnout

The author.
Original image by G. Zocchi, copyright G. Zocchi

Stephanie Osborn is a former payload flight controller, a veteran of over
twenty years of working in the civilian space program, as well as various
military space defense programs.

Stephanie holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in four sciences:
Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics, and she is "fluent" in
several more, including Geology and Anatomy. She obtained her various
degrees from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN and
Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.

She has worked on numerous Space Shuttle flights and the International Space
Station, and counts the training of astronauts on her resume. Of those
astronauts she trained, one was Kalpana Chawla, or "K.C.," a member
of the crew lost in the Columbia disaster.

The last crew of Shuttle Columbia. KC is in the center, holding the logo.
Image from ClassroomClipart.com

Stephanie is currently retired from space work. She now happily "passes it
forward," tutoring math and science to students in the Huntsville area, from
elementary through college, while writing science fiction mysteries based
on her knowledge, experience, and travels.

Shuttle launch and ascent, just prior to SRB Sep.
Image by S. Osborn

Her current novel in work at Twilight Times Books is Burnout, a science fiction
mystery about a Space Shuttle disaster that turns out to be no accident.
As the true scope of the disaster is gradually uncovered by the principal
investigators, "Crash" Murphy and Dr. Mike Anders, they find themselves
running for their lives, as lovers, friends and coworkers involved in the
investigation perish around them. What happened to the Shuttle? Who is
responsible and why? Why is the government calling it an accident? Why is
someone willing to kill to keep it a secret? And how big is the conspiracy?
An exciting action techno-thriller, Burnout will leave you on the edge
of your seat, not wanting to put it down.