Screen LibraryToo far from home：a story of life and death in space
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| Published: |
Doubleday,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Carrier Form: | 288 p., [8] p. of plates: ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0385514654 9780385514651 (cloth) |
| Index Number: | V11 |
| CLC: |
V11-09 V528 V476.1 |
| Call Number: | V11-09/J765 |
| Contents: | Every time an astronaut makes the trip into space, he faces the risk of death from the slightest mechanical error or instance of bad luck. In February 2003, American astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin were on what was to be a routine fourteen-week mission maintaining the International Space Station. But then the shuttle Columbia exploded beneath them. With the launch program suspended indefinitely, these astronauts had suddenly lost their ride back to earth. This book offers a detailed portrait of the odd life of the people who live in z |