After years of flying fighter planes and 5 years as test pilot, Guy is now, Dec. 4, 1959, on a secret British space capsule orbiting Earth trying to reenter but things start going wrong. Can he, despite cold war, get back to Earth safely?

As far I can tell, this is purely fictional. It’s a one man show (until it suddenly very much isn’t) and it has some problems with pacing and there was a point with some of the people he was talking to over the radio that I just gave up on my suspension of disbelief.