Off the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station Mir by Jerry Linenger

Off the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station Mir by Jerry Linenger

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.

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.

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ISBN 13	9780071372305
ISBN 10	007137230X
Title	Off the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station Mir
Author	Jerry Linenger
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Year published	2001-01-16
Number of pages	272
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