Off the Planet Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station Mir

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.Linenger, Jerry M. is the author of 'Off the Planet Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station Mir' with ISBN 9780071372305 and ISBN 007137230X.