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It was like nothing on Earth. „An unvarnished account of his near-disastrous stay, in 1997, on Russia’s creaky space station…an engrossing report that NASA’s publicity machine will bemoan.”–Booklist. „[Linenger’s] frank, personable prose shows readers what it’s like to be an astronaut–or at least to be this particular astronaut, trying, along with his Russian companions, to live and work with good humor on an 11-year-old, half-broken, famously flammable space station as its air fills with antifreeze that is leaking out of shoddy cooling lines.”–Publishers Weekly. „NASA astronaut Linenger spent five months aboard the Russian space station Mir, a spacecraft operating far beyond its design life. His personal account vividly captures the challenges and privation he endured both before and during his flight.”–Library Journal.
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‘Off The Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station Mir’ by Jerry M. Linenger is one of the most readable. Off the Planet sheds new light on such present developments as the Russians’ determination to continue the Mir after their repeated commitments to abandon it, combined with their commitments to the International Space Station. The book makes one think that perhaps the United States would be better off partnering in space with, say, Somalia or Lower Slobovia. Russian Psychologist, cure thyself and thy kindred.
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