Riding Rockets

Zusatztext "Funny! harrowing! tragic... Riding Rockets is a thrill! from start to finish." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Informationen zum Autor 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. He is also an acclaimed motivational speaker. For more information visit www.MikeMullane.com. Klappentext Decorated fly-boy, combat veteran, and International Space Hall-of-Famer Colonel Mike Mullane delivers a bright and revealing memoir of his life as an astronaut--the first book of its kind to take a close look at NASA's space shuttle program. of photos. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Mike Mullane, Mullane Mike
• Publisher: Scribner USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2007
• EAN: 9780743276832
• ISBN: 978-0-7432-7683-2
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, NATURE / Sky Observation, United States of America, USA, Popular astronomy & space, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Popular astronomy and space, Biography: science, technology and medicine