Full name: Off the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station Mir

Author: Jerry M. Linenger Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Science, Memoirs, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780071372305 9780071361125 007137230X 007136112X

On January 2, 1997, Jerry M. Linenger launched aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis en route to an historic rendezvous: the Space Station Mir, where he was to be one of the few American astronauts to formally partner with Russian cosmonauts, as part of a joint initiative to prepare for a New International Space Station. the 11-year old Mir was battered and dilapidated, and operating far beyond its design life. Still few anticipated that Linenger's Mir mission would be part of what has become known as one of the most dangerous in the 36-year history of manned space travel.