Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir
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| Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir | |
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| Author | Bryan Burrough |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | nonfiction |
| Publisher | Fourth Estate |
| Pages | 432 pp |
| ISBN | 1841150878 |
Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir (ISBN 0-88730-783-3) is a book by Bryan Burrough about the Russian Mir space station and the cosmonauts and astronauts who served aboard. The story centres around astronaut Jerry Linenger and the events on the Shuttle and Mir Space Programme in 1997.
 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 |
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 Deputy Associate Administrator for the Office of Space Flight, George Abbey |
[edit] Further reading
Many space topics are touched upon in the book, more information on these can be found in Wikipedia using the links below.
- 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.
[edit] External links
- Houston, We Have a Problem. New York Times Review (free registration required to access article)
- NASA Photo Gallery for STS-84 mission
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