Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir
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Author | Bryan Burrough |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | nonfiction |
Publisher | Fourth Estate |
Publication date | 1999 |
Pages | 432 pp |
ISBN | 1-84115-087-8 |
OCLC | 42623272 |
Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir (ISBN 0-88730-783-3) is a 1999 book by Bryan Burrough about the Russian Mir space station and the cosmonauts and astronauts who served aboard. The story centres on astronaut Jerry Linenger and the events on the Shuttle and Mir Space Programme in 1997.
- Personnel covered in the book
Astronaut Jerry Linenger
Astronaut John Blaha
Astronaut Michael Foale
Cosmonaut Aleksandr Lazutkin
Cosmonaut Vasili Tsibliyev
Cosmonaut Valeri Korzun
Co-chair, Flight Operations and Systems Integration Working Group, Energia, Viktor Blagov
Frank Culbertson
Blaine Hammond
Deputy Associate Administrator for the Office of Space Flight, George Abbey
See also[]
- The Buran Spacecraft designed as an equivalent to the US Space Shuttle.
- The Energia Rocket, designed to serve as an expendable launch system for the soviet space programme.
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, the launch base in Kazakhstan.
- Ethylene glycol, the anti-freeze which leaked on board Mir.
External links[]
- Houston, We Have a Problem. New York Times Review
- NASA Photo Gallery for STS-84 mission
Categories:
- 1999 non-fiction books
- Mir
- Spaceflight books
- Space stubs
- Astronomy book stubs