Author : Jerry M. Linenger
Release : 2000-01-13
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 628/5 ( reviews)

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Off The Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard The Space Station MIR - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Off The Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard The Space Station MIR write by Jerry M. Linenger. This book was released on 2000-01-13. Off The Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard The Space Station MIR available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “An engrossing report.”—Booklist “Vividly captures the challenges and privations [Dr. Linenger] endured both before and during his flight.”—Library Journal Nothing on earth compares to Off the Planet—Dr. Jerry Linenger’s dramatic account of space exploration turned survival mission during his 132 days aboard the decaying and unstable Russian space station Mir. Not since Apollo 13 has an American astronaut faced so many catastrophic malfunctions and life-threatening emergencies in one mission. In his remarkable narrative, Linenger chronicles power outages that left the crew in complete darkness, tumbling out of control; chemical leaks and near collisions that threatened to rupture Mir’s hull; and most terrifying of all—a raging fire that almost destroyed the space station and the lives of its entire crew.