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9780071372305

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

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    9780071372305

  • ISBN10:

    007137230X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-12-12
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
PART ONE: ON THE PLANET
Looking Upward
3(2)
Becoming an Astronaut
5(11)
Hello, Russia
16(12)
Hanging Out in Star City
28(10)
Training, Russian Style
38(10)
Tomorrow, Mir
48(9)
Crew Quarters
57(7)
Off to Work
64(11)
PART TWO: OFF THE PLANET
Docking a One-Hundred-Ton Space Shuttle
75(13)
My First Days on Mir
88(4)
The Arrival of Vasily and Sasha
92(7)
``Fire!''
99(12)
An Attempted Coverup
111(7)
Cosmonauts, Da! Mission Control, Nyet!
118(17)
The Glories of Earth Gazing
135(14)
Profound Isolation
149(11)
Escaping a Near-Death Collision
160(18)
Housekeeping in Space
178(6)
Hurtling Into Nothingness
184(10)
Broken Trust
194(9)
Taking a Stroll
203(8)
Going Home
211(9)
Even the Air Tastes Sweet
220(11)
PART THREE: BACK ON THE PLANET
Home at Last
231(6)
Getting Back on My Feet
237(4)
Aftershock
241(5)
``Are You Glad You Flew on Mir?''
246(9)
Index 255

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