Surviving Five Perilous Months
Aboard the Space Station
Mir
by Jerry
M. Linenger
othing
on earth compares to Off the Planet—Dr. Jerry Linenger's dramatic
account of space exploration turned survival
mission during his 132 days aboard the decaying and unstable Russian
space station Mir.
Not since Apollo 13 has an American astronaut
faced so many catastrophic malfunctions and life-threatening
emergencies in one mission. In his remarkable narrative, Linenger
chronicles power outages that left the crew in
complete darkness, tumbling out of control; chemical leaks and near
collisions that threatened to rupture Mir's hull; and
most terrifying of all—a raging fire that almost destroyed
the space station and the lives of its entire crew.
othing
on earth compares to Off the Planet—Dr. Jerry Linenger's dramatic
account of space exploration turned survival
mission during his 132 days aboard the decaying and unstable Russian
space station Mir.
