Riding Rockets (eBook)

The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut

Mike Mullane (Autor)

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2006
384 Seiten
Scribner (Verlag)
978-0-7432-9676-2 (ISBN)

Infos

NASA astronaut Mike Mullane delivers a hilariously candid and often raw astronaut memoir of life in the Space Shuttle era. Selected in 1978 as part of the groundbreaking astronaut classthe first to include womenMullane exposes the unfiltered reality behind the heroic veneer of NASA.His stories bounce between bawdy military-flyboy antics, interactions with feminist pioneers and post-doc scientists, and the unforgiving bureaucracy of NASA leadership. Mullane pulls no punches: from drinking games at mission briefings to the embarrassing logistics of urinary-collection devices, no detail is too small or too irreverent. He recounts the emotional highs of launch and the sublime beauty of orbit, and the heartbreak of losing four crewmates in the Challenger disaster. His tough critique of NASA's cultureespecially its sexist undercurrents and managerial ineptitudemakes this more than a spaceflight chronicle; it's a cultural memoir of human spaceflight. With uproarious humor, brutal honesty, and emotional depth, Riding Rockets offers an unforgettable look into the life of an astronaut: the risks, the camaraderie, the mistakes, and the moments of awe that define a generation of space explorers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.2.2006
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• ISBN-10: 0-7432-9676-1 / 0743296761
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-9676-2 / 9780743296762