High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet is a children`s literature book by science writer June A. English and astronaut Thomas David Jones. It was published in 1996 by Scholastic. The book chronicles the NASA space mission of Jones, which began April 1994, with contextual background information provided by English. Jones was among the crew members of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, during an eleven day mission in Space to study the ecology well-being of planet Earth utilizing specialized radar technology. Radar images and picturesque photographs help to illustrate the account given by Jones throughout the work.