This was perhaps the most infantile SF book I have ever read. If you can get past the boring descriptions of each character's life, you find yourself in a boring plot. I enjoy SF, but I do like for it to be believable. Sure, the President of the U.S. might be a female, and sure, she might have a personal life of her own, but jumping into a car and speeding to a tryst with an astronaut who is about to lead a crew to another earth-like planet? Oh, come on now! I'm sorry I wasted my time with such junk.