Mullane mike astronaut (3 Ergebnisse)

A novel centered around the end of the cold war. Faint trace of tape residue on boards. Otherwise a clean, tight fine copy. Dust jacket is fine. Picture shows little white sticker affixed to spine but that is just on the glassine jacket cover. Large 8vo. Black cloth with grey cloth spine stamped in silver. 434 pp.…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition. Octavo Size. Very Good condition. Corners a little rubbed. Black & white illustrations by Mike Wimmer. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 96 pages. Mike Mullane served as a mission specialist on three shuttle flights. Wimmer, Mike (illustrator).…

Softcover. Zustand: very good condition, new book. On February 1, 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts, twenty-nine men and six women, were introduced to the world. Among them would be history makers, including the first American woman and the first African American in space. This assembly of astronauts would carry NASA through the most tumultuous years of the space shuttle program. Four would die on Challenger. USAF Colonel Mike Mullane was a member of this astronaut class, and Riding Rockets is his-story - told with a candor never before seen in an astronaut's memoir. Mullane strips the heroic veneer from the astronaut corps and paints them as they are - human. His tales of arrested development among military flyboys working with feminist pioneers and post-doc scientists are sometimes bawdy, often hilarious, and always entertaining. Mullane vividly portrays every aspect of the astronaut experiencefrom telling a female technician which urinecollection condom size is a fit; to walking along a Florida beach in a last, tearful goodbye with a spouse; to a wild, intoxicating, terrifying ride into space; to hearing "Taps" played over a friend's grave. Mullane is brutally honest in his criticism of a NASA leadership whose bungling would precipitate the Challenger disaster. Riding Rockets is a story of life in all its fateful uncertainty, of the impact of a family tragedy on a nine-year-old boy, of the revelatory effect of a machine called Sputnik, and of the life-steering powers of lust, love, and marriage. It is a story of the human experience that will resonate long after the call of "Wheel stop." 382 p. photos.…