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DRAGONFLY: NASA And The Crisis Aboard Mir

DRAGONFLY: NASA And The Crisis Aboard Mir

DRAGONFLY: NASA And The Crisis Aboard Mir
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DRAGONFLY: NASA And The Crisis Aboard Mir

de Burrough, Bryan

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0887307833
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New York, New York, U.S.A. : HarperCollins, 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bryan Burrough, coauthor of the bestselling BARBARIANS AT THE GATE, has a talent for reworking factual accounts so they read like first-rate thrillers. DRAGONFLY: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir is overwhelming in its scope and breadth of detail, culled from one-on-one interviews and transcripts of recorded conversations between the astronauts and cosmonauts on Mir and Russian Mission Control. Burrough delves deeply into the personal and professional lives of the 11 people who lived aboard Mir from 1995 to 1998. What we soon discover is simultaneously disheartening and fascinating: the men and women who would be astronauts must run a gauntlet of hazings, are judged professionally on their personal lives, and win flight assignments through serendipity as often as through hard work. NASA is controlled by cliques and cults of personality: "People don't speak out, because George makes short work of you if you do.... If you get on his bad side, you won't get a flight assignment...." There are "issues dealing with training and the selection of crews that you don't dare speak up about." The down-to-the-last-bolt descriptions of life aboard the station, from what the air smells like to an explanation of "penguin suits" to the distance between the dinner table and the original, now seldom-used toilet--2 feet--will thrill space enthusiasts. Space may not be "where no man has gone before" anymore, but it nevertheless provides endless dream fodder for those of us left behind on Earth. --Jhana Bach Includes a section of color photographs. As new, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust cover. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] NFBS2

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Inventario del vendedor #
023881
Título
DRAGONFLY: NASA And The Crisis Aboard Mir
Autor
Burrough, Bryan
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Tapa dura
Estado del libro
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Estado de la sobrecubierta
As New
Cantidad disponible
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Edición
1st Edition 1st Printing
ISBN 10
0887307833
ISBN 13
9780887307836
Editorial
HarperCollins
Lugar de publicación
New York, New York, U.S.A.
Fecha de publicación
1998
Páginas
544
Tamaño
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Product_type
2

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