She's the glue holding the hodge-podge team together. Jansen is the only one among them to have old-school astronaut training and experience. The other members selected for the mission include Parminder Rao, an astrobiologist, Sunny Stevens, an astrophysicist and Windson Hawkins, a military pilot.

Jansen is not necessarily eager to answer NASA's call, but she understands this could be her only hope for salvation, so she agrees to help. Seeing she is the only individual left with a certain set of skills, Sally is called upon to lead the mission to investigate 2I. Sally Jansen, a former NASA astronaut, has been living a quiet life since a failed expedition to Mars left a fellow astronaut dead. The object, which appears to be a spaceship, dubbed 2I, is unresponsive to all attempts at communication, so the experts figure, they'll get a little closer. When a large alien object is observed hurtling towards Earth, seemingly under its own propulsion, NASA quickly assembles a team to try to intercept it. He now lives in New York City with his dog Mary Shelley and wife Elisabeth who, in her wedding vows, promised to “kick serious zombie ass” for him. He also holds a masters degree in Library Science from Pratt Institute. Wellington attended Syracuse University and received an MFA in creative writing from Penn State. He also made his debut as a comic book writer in 2009 with Marvel Zombies Return:Iron Man. His novels have been featured in Rue Morgue, Fangoria, and the New York Times. Response to the project was so great that in 2004 Thunder’s Mouth Press approached David Wellington about publishing Monster Island as a print book. His career began in 2004 when he started serializing his horror fiction online, posting short chapters of a novel three times a week on a friend’s blog. His books have been translated into eleven langauges and are a global phenomenon. David Wellington is a contemporary American horror author, best known for his Zombie trilogy as well as his Vampire series and Werewolf series.

The last astronaut by david wellington