Off the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station Mir - Softcover

Linenger, Jerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 007137230X ISBN 13: 9780071372305

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2001

Synopsis

This is 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 astronaut faced so many catastrophic malfunctions and life-threatening emergencies in one mission, and lived to tell about it.

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About the Author

Capt. Jerry M. Linenger, M.D., Ph.D., is a retired U.S. Navy flight surgeon and NASA astronaut. A naval academy graduate, Dr. Linenger holds a doctorate in epidemiology, a master's in systems management, and a master's in public health policy. He has also been awarded three honorary doctorate degrees in science. During his mission aboard Mir, he logged fifty million miles in more than two thousand Earth orbits. He was the first American to undock from the space station in Soyuz spacecraft and the first American to spacewalk wearing a Russian spacesuit outside a foreign craft. At the completion of his mission, he had spent more continuous time in space than any male American.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 007137230X
• ISBN 13: 9780071372305
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272