Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir

Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir
Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir  
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Author(s) Bryan Burrough
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) nonfiction
Publisher Fourth Estate
Pages 432 pp
ISBN 1841150878
OCLC Number 42623272

Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir (ISBN 0-88730-783-3) is a book by Bryan Burrough about the Russian Mir space station and the cosmonauts and astronauts who served aboard. The story centres around astronaut Jerry Linenger and the events on the Shuttle and Mir Space Programme in 1997.

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