SOLVED. Novel about a NASA trip to Mars and a virus discovered from outer space. [s]

[Felicia]

I read a book about a space shuttle going to Mars. There is a doctor on board. They will be traveling for several months to get there. Before they reach Mars there is a disaster and it appears that they won't make it to Mars and back so they turn around to come back to Earth. There is a virus discovered that they believe may have come from space. In order to survive and all make it back to earth, the doctor puts everyone but herself in a medically induced coma and the majority of the energy to the space shuttle is turned down/off for the few months until they arrive back to earth. In the end it's discovered that the virus was planted from someone on earth and it was all a conspiracy. This is not a normal sci-fi with aliens or anything like that, more a space adventure. Is anyone familiar with this book and what its name is?

[mdt]

Gravity by Tess Gerritson?

More suggestions in this thread from last year: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

ETA: Gravity was suggested in the old thread and I guess that wasn't it. What year did you read the book?

[Felicia]

That was my thread last year. Somehow my account got deleted. Still looking for the book. It wasn't Gravity, but I did read that and it was good. :-)
I read it maybe 5 years ago.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Felicia, linking to your old thread here in case it contains additional useful information:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Oops, I see mdt already linked. FYI the old thread has been closed to avoid confusion.

[Tab]

Felicia, did was the majority of the book about the travel towards Mars/back to earth?

Or, did it focus on the virus on Earth?

[Felicia]

The majority of the book was about the travel in space.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Felicia, are you still looking for this or did you find it?

[AquaMoon]

sounds a lot like "A Season of Passage" by Christopher Pike.

[Kris]

The Season of Passage by Christopher Pike for Alissa's suggestion.

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bump

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Felicia hasn't been active on GR since Feb. of 2015. Do we want to move this down to Unsolved or wait a bit longer?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Has anyone else read Alissa's suggestion who can confirm or refute that that is the correct book? I can't really tell from the reviews.

[Felicia]

The book was Gravity. I went back and reread it. The intro was completely different than I remembered so the descriptions threw me off. Thanks for the suggestion!

[Felicia]

Solved. Book was Gravity. I reread it and the intro was different then I remembered which threw me off. Thanks everyone!

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