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Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
Mike Mullane
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Description for Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
Paperback. Loved by Jon Stewart (The Daily Showon Channel 4), lavishly praised by Entertainment Weekly, profiled in The New York Times Science section, and reprinted four times, Mike Mullane's laugh-out-loud, attention-grabbing memoir about his life as an astronaut is finally available in paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 pp b-w insert. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGT; WNX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 360.
Selected as a Mission Specialist in 1978 in the first group of shuttle astronauts, Mike Mullane completed three missions and logged 356 hours aboard the Discovery and Atlantis shuttles. It was a dream come true. As a boy, Mullane could only read about space travel in science fiction, but the launch of Sputnik changed all that. Space flight became a possible dream and Mike Mullane set out to make it come true. In this absorbing memoir, Mullane gives the first-ever look into the often hilarious, sometime volatile dynamics of space shuttle astronauts - a class that included Vietnam War veterans, ... Read more
Selected as a Mission Specialist in 1978 in the first group of shuttle astronauts, Mike Mullane completed three missions and logged 356 hours aboard the Discovery and Atlantis shuttles. It was a dream come true. As a boy, Mullane could only read about space travel in science fiction, but the launch of Sputnik changed all that. Space flight became a possible dream and Mike Mullane set out to make it come true. In this absorbing memoir, Mullane gives the first-ever look into the often hilarious, sometime volatile dynamics of space shuttle astronauts - a class that included Vietnam War veterans, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Scribner
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780743276832
SKU
V9780743276832
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About Mike Mullane
Upon his graduation from West Point in 1967, Mike Mullane was commissioned in the USAF. He flew 134 combat missions in Vietnam. Selected in the first group of space shuttle astronauts, he completed three space missions. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his wife, Donna, and enjoys the challenge of Colorado's fourteen-thousand-foot peaks -- six climbed, forty-seven to go. ... Read more
Reviews for Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
Funny, harrowing, tragic...Riding Rockets is a thrill, from start to finish.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch This is not your father's astronaut memoir.... Mullane's story rings true every adventurous step of the way.
Rocky Mountain News Compelling.
Entertainment Weekly Space-age America in all its glory and folly ... Read more
St. Louis Post-Dispatch This is not your father's astronaut memoir.... Mullane's story rings true every adventurous step of the way.
Rocky Mountain News Compelling.
Entertainment Weekly Space-age America in all its glory and folly ... Read more