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

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

by JerryM.Linenger (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

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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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Published: 01 Jan 2001
ISBN 10: 007137230X
ISBN 13: 9780071372305

Author Bio
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.