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Riding Rockets : The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut by Mike Mullane (2006, Hardcover)
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PublisherScribner
ISBN-100743276825
ISBN-139780743276825
eBay Product ID (ePID)48247140
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Book TitleRiding Rockets : the Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2006
TopicPhysics / Astrophysics, General, Science & Technology
IllustratorYes
GenreScience, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorMike Mullane
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight19.2 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.3 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-056123
Reviews"Convincing, scary, ribald, and sometimes screamingly funny, Mike Mullane gets to the heart of the real astronaut culture in "Riding Rockets" and puts to rest for all time the superficial image of 'Right Stuff' warriors. Mullane paints the astronaut's yearning and wild sense of accomplishment with the same abandon that he portrays the pitfalls of the bureaucratic web in which they work." -- Walter Boyne, author of "The Wild Blue" and former director of the National Air and Space Museum, "Convincing, scary, ribald, and sometimes screamingly funny, Mike Mullane gets to the heart of the real astronaut culture in Riding Rockets and puts to rest for all time the superficial image of 'Right Stuff' warriors. Mullane paints the astronaut's yearning and wild sense of accomplishment with the same abandon that he portrays the pitfalls of the bureaucratic web in which they work." -- Walter Boyne, author of The Wild Blue and former director of the National Air and Space Museum, "The straight, hot, steaming truth about NASA and flying the wild black yonder from a guy who really did it. Five stars!" -- Stephen Coonts, author of "Flight of the Intruder", "It is a pleasure to read Mike Mullane's entertaining depiction of the NASA astronaut corps. He tells it like it is, and not the way NASA's painted it for so many years." -- General Chuck Yeager, fighter ace, test pilot, and chairman, General Chuck Yeager Foundation, "If you want a peek behind the NASA kimono, this is it! It may be more than you wanted to know about today's all-American boys laying it all on the line to fly the space shuttle. Mike's story is honest...brutally honest. You haven't read it before, and you are not likely to see it in the future." -- Walter Cunningham, "Apollo 7" astronaut and author of "The All-American Boys", "The straight, hot, steaming truth about NASA and flying the wild black yonder from a guy who really did it. Five stars!" -- Stephen Coonts, author ofFlight of the Intruder, "The straight, hot, steaming truth about NASA and flying the wild black yonder from a guy who really did it. Five stars!" -- Stephen Coonts, author of Flight of the Intruder, "Mike Mullane took me back on a revealing journey to NASA. In these pages I discovered the adventures of the shuttle astronauts. Through palace intrigue, trials and tribulations, triumph and tragedy, Mike exposes it all. What a change from the early days! Maybe I was born too soon!" -- James A. Lovell, commander of "Apollo 13" and author of "Apollo 13: Lost Moon", "If you want a peek behind the NASA kimono, this is it! It may be more than you wanted to know about today's all-American boys laying it all on the line to fly the space shuttle. Mike's story is honest...brutally honest. You haven't read it before, and you are not likely to see it in the future." -- Walter Cunningham,Apollo 7astronaut and author ofThe All-American Boys, "I never thought I'd say this about an astronaut's memoir but Mike Mullane's Riding Rockets is as inspiring, triumphant, thought-provoking, and truly remarkable as, well, that classic memoir known as Rocket Boys/October Sky by Homer Hickam. It has been suggested that NASA should send a poet into space to properly describe it but I'm happy to report that is no longer required. Mike Mullane is a poet-astronaut who in this marvelous book allows those of us who never got there to see, hear, feel, even taste the wonders of the high frontier of space. Make no mistake: this is far more than a report written by an astronaut about his orbital adventures. This is the touching tale of a childhood spent vagabonding around the country within a colorful but flawed family, of a young man desperate to be accepted in a society he doesn't fully understand, of a marriage nearly crushed under the demands and temptations of astronaut fame, and, finally, of the grand adventure of riding the amazing but always potentially deadly Space Shuttle. In short, this is the story of space-age America in all its glory and folly as seen through the eyes of a remarkable writer who has brilliantly captured the triumphant and tragic years of the Space Shuttle era. You may think you don't care about space or astronauts but trust me, make an exception for this memoir. Quite simply, Riding Rockets soars." -- Homer Hickam, author of Rocket Boys, "It has been suggested that NASA should send a poet into space to properly describe it, but I'm happy to report that is no longer required. Mike Mullane is a poet-astronaut who in this marvelous book allows those of us who never got there to see, hear, feel, even taste the wonders of the high frontier of space. Riding Rockets is the story of space-age America in all its glory and folly as seen through the eyes of a remarkable writer, who has brilliantly captured the triumphant and tragic years of the space shuttle era. You may think you don't care about space or astronauts, but trust me, make an exception for this memoir. Quite simply, Riding Rockets soars." -- Homer Hickam, author of Rocket Boys, "I thoroughly enjoyed Riding Rockets. It gave me exactly what I was hoping for: not just the nuts and bolts of training and working as an astronaut, but the joys, frustrations, fears, struggles, and wonder of traveling in space. I highly recommend Mullane's story." -- Dale Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Act of War, "It has been suggested that NASA should send a poet into space to properly describe it, but I'm happy to report that is no longer required. Mike Mullane is a poet-astronaut who in this marvelous book allows those of us who never got there to see, hear, feel, even taste the wonders of the high frontier of space. "Riding Rockets" is the story of space-age America in all its glory and folly as seen through the eyes of a remarkable writer, who has brilliantly captured the triumphant and tragic years of the space shuttle era. You may think you don't care about space or astronauts, but trust me, make an exception for this memoir. Quite simply, "Riding Rockets" soars." -- Homer Hickam, author of "Rocket Boys", "I thoroughly enjoyed "Riding Rockets." It gave me exactly what I was hoping for: not just the nuts and bolts of training and working as an astronaut, but the joys, frustrations, fears, struggles, and wonder of traveling in space. I highly recommend Mullane's story." -- Dale Brown, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Act of War", "Mike Mullane took me back on a revealing journey to NASA. In these pages I discovered the adventures of the shuttle astronauts. From palace intrigue, trials and tribulations, triumph and tragedy, Mike exposes it all. What a change from the early days! Maybe I was born too soon!"-- James A. Lovell, Commander of Apollo 13 and author of Apollo 13: Lost Moon
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal629.450092 B
Table Of ContentContents Acknowledgments 1. Bowels and Brains2. Adventure3. Polio4. Sputnik5. Selection6. The Space Shuttle7. Arrested Development8. Welcome9. Babes and Booze10. Temples of History11. The F***ing New Guys12. Speed13. Training14. Adventures in Public Speaking15.Columbia16. Pecking Order17. Prime Crew18. Donna19. Abort20. MECO21. Orbit22. Coming to America23. Astronaut Wings24. Part-time Astronauts25. The Golden Age26.Challenger27. Castle Intrigue28. Falling29. Change30. Mission Assignment31. God Falls32. Swine Flight33. Classified Work34. "No reason to die all tensed up"35. Riding a Meteor36. Christie and Annette37. Widows38. "I have no plans past MECO"39. Holding at Nine and Hurting40. Last Orbits41. The White House42. Journey's End EpilogueGlossaryIndex
SynopsisOn 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 onChallenger. USAF Colonel Mike Mullane was a member of this astronaut class, andRiding Rocketsis 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 experience -- from telling a female technician which urine-collection 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 theChallengerdisaster. Riding Rocketsis 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.", Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: The Angolite, Xueren, National Magazine Awards, Gangway, JadranSport, The World's Work, Gent, Monocle, The Vocabula Review, MidWeek, Justice Magazine, The Pearl, The Music Scene, Future Science Fiction, Flagmaster, Demon Beast Invasion, Australian Playboy, Black Inches, UNIX Review, Michael Dukmejian, Mandate, Club, Freshmen, Beaver Hunt, Yellow Silk, Van Nu en Straks, Seattle Metropolitan, UNESCO Courier, Astonishing Stories, Numbers, CKM, The American Museum, Policy Innovations, The Antipodean, Future Sex, Shukan Jitsuwa, Ethical Consumer, Irish Monthly, The Old Guard, Yes , Comic LO, Men's World, Boink, Genesis, Overland Monthly, World Affairs, Reunions magazine, UFO Magazine, Competition Success Review, Early and Medieval Chinese History, The New-England Magazine, LM, The Unexplained, Remnant Media, Debonair, Leg Show, Musical Courier, Gallery, The American Weekly, Noseweek, Blueboy, Worlds Beyond, The Royal Magazine, Satellite Science Fiction, The Transatlantic Review, La Revue de Teheran, Al-Musawar, Russkaya Starina, Penthouse Forum, Duzhe, Modern Man, Outsert, Sex Herald, SPAN magazine, Maisonneuve, Revista Cromos, Aktuell Rapport, The Cremorne, Independent Review, Sudden Weekly, Wimpkiller, Detective Book Magazine, Story-Teller, The Boston Miscellany, Primitive Methodist Magazine, Regulation, Cosmopolis: A Literary Review, Manshots, Realites, Splosh , El Gugeton, Harper's Young People, Labor's Heritage, Chitralekha, Chic Magazine, Total Carp, The World of Chinese, Veien frem, Push , The New England Magazine, Guns & Weapons for Law Enforcement, Specialty Publications, My Own Mag, ITNOW, The Watchman, The Forum, The Young Elizabethan, Home Monthly, Sag tar, InRock, The Boudoir, Everybody's Magazine, Thrilling Adventures, Super-Science Fiction, Ahlan , Macmillan's Magazine, International Language Review, ...
LC Classification NumberTL789.85.M86A3 2006
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