Off the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station Mir
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Off the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station Mir by Jerry Linenger
Looks at one of the most dangerous missions in the history of manned space travel. This work presents the author's 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 |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education - Europe |
| Year published | 2001-01-16 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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