Research Catalog

Title

Off the planet : surviving five perilous months aboard the space station Mir / Jerry M. Linenger.

Author

Linenger, Jerry M.

Publication

New York : McGraw-Hill, [2000], ©2000.

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Holdings

Details

Description

x, 259 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

• "On January 12, 1997, Jerry M. Linenger took off aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, en route to an historic rendezvous with the Russian Space Station Mir. One of the few American astronauts to formally partner with Russian cosmonauts, he had been selected to spend five months aboard Mir, participating in a joint initiative to lay the groundwork for a new International Space Station.".
• "But when he finally boarded Mir and took his first tour around the dark, ramshackle, incredibly cluttered space station, reminiscent of "six school buses all hooked together," Linenger knew he was in for a rough ride." "A hair-raising tale of survival in the forbidding depths of space, Off the Planet tells, for the first time, the complete story of that illstarred mission."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Space stations
• Space flights
• Linenger, Jerry M
• Mir (Space station)
• Astronauts > United States > Biography

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

1. Looking Upward -- 2. Becoming an Astronaut -- 3. Hello, Russia -- 4. Hanging Out in Star City -- 5. Training, Russian Style -- 6. Tomorrow, Mir -- 7. Crew Quarters -- 8. Off to Work -- 9. Docking a One-Hundred-Ton Space Shuttle -- 10. My First Days on Mir -- 11. The Arrival of Vasily and Sasha -- 12. "Fire!" -- 13. An Attempted Coverup -- 14. Cosmonauts, Da! Mission Control, Nyet! -- 15. The Glories of Earth Gazing -- 16. Profound Isolation -- 17. Escaping a Near-Death Collision -- 18. Housekeeping in Space -- 19. Hurtling Into Nothingness -- 20. Broken Trust -- 21. Taking a Stroll -- 22. Going Home -- 23. Even the Air Tastes Sweet -- 24. Home at Last -- 25. Getting Back on My Feet -- 26. Aftershock -- 27. "Are You Glad You Flew on Mir?"

ISBN

007136112X

OCLC

• ocm43327919
• SCSB-3886100

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries