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OFF THE PLANET: SURVIVING FIVE PERILOUS MONTHS ABOARD THE SPACE STATION MIR
Linenger, Jerry M.
2000 2873862 ABOUT THE BOOK Off the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station Mir FROM OUR EDITORS This isn't the starship Enterprise. When former U.S. Navy flight surgeon and NASA astronaut Jerry Linenger signed on for a stint on Mir, he wasn't expecting to battle power outages, chemical leaks, and a raging fire.Get the real scoop on what it was like to live on Mir from an American astronaut who logged 50 million miles in 2,000 Earth orbits. FROM THE PUBLISHER On January 12, 1997, Jerry M. Linenger took off aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, en route to an historic rendezvous with the Russian Space Station Mir. One of the few American astronauts to formally partner with Russian cosmonauts, he had been selected to spend five months aboard Mir, participating in a joint initiative to lay the groundwork for a new International Space Station. But when he finally boarded Mir and took his first tour around the dark, ramshackle, incredibly cluttered space station, reminiscent of "six school buses all hooked together," Linenger knew he was in for a rough ride. A hair-raising tale of survival in the forbidding depths of space, OFF THE PLANET tells, for the first time, the complete story of that illstarred mission. SYNOPSIS IT WAS LIKE NOTHING ON EARTH. "An engrossing report that NASA's publicity machine will bemoan." -Booklist "NASA astronaut Linenger spent five months aboard the Russian space station Mir, a spacecraft operating far beyond its design life. His personal account vividly captures the challenges and privation he endured both before and during his flight." -Library Journal On January 12, 1997, Dr. Jerry M. Linenger took off aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, en route to an historic rendezvous with the Russian Space Station Mir. But when he finally boarded Mir and took his first tour around the dark, ramshackle, and decaying space station, reminiscent of "six school buses all hooked together," Linenger knew he was in for a rough ride. Little did he know just how rough it would be, or how many brushes with death he and his Russian colleagues would face over the next 132 days? The first complete and uncensored account of one of the most dangerous missions in the history of manned space travel Off the Planet is Dr. Jerry Linenger's dramatic account of space exploration turned survival mission. Not since Apollo 13 has an American astronaut faced so many catastrophic malfunctions and life-threatening emergencies in one mission-and lived to tell about it. FROM THE CRITICS Publishers Weekly U.S. astronaut Linenger lived on the rickety Russian space station for five months in 1997, enduring a near-fatal fire, malicious rumors, Moscow micromanagement and a near collision with an unmanned, "worthless, garbage-filled cargo-ship" called Progress. Yet Linenger's detailed and informal memoir sounds less frustrated than honestly optimistic. The author gives readers a long run-up to his five months in orbit, describing his time at the Naval Academy, his Space Shuttle experience and his life in Russia's rundown cosmonaut complex, Star City. His experiences aboard the Space Shuttle that brings him to the Mir station give Linenger an opportunity to depict the humorous side of life in orbit: he tells us, for example, how a fellow astronaut called, from space, the radio program Car Talk, and he explains how he washed and shaved (using a "specially formulated NASA shaving cream called `Astro Edge' ") while off-planet. When he arrives at Mir, the space station looks like "six school buses all hooked together"; inside, it's startlingly cluttered. The station's increasingly hazardous state confirms that the Shuttle-Mir collaborations existed less for the sake of science than for the sake of the Russian economy. Linenger's narrative could have used some editing, as when his descriptions give way to comments such as "I... really enjoy squeezing as many projects into my life as possible." Still, his frank, personable prose shows readers what it's like to be an astronaut--or at least to be this particular astronaut, Published at Twenty Five dollars. McGraw-Hill Companies, The 0-07-136112-X / 9780071361125
Hardcover As New As New Book Jacket Blacklick, Ohio, U.S.A.
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