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 enlarge | Author: Mike Mullane
Publisher: Scribner
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  74 reviews
Sales Rank: 115275
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 1
ISBN: 0743276833
Dewey Decimal Number: 509
EAN: 9780743276832
ASIN: 0743276833
Publication Date: February 6, 2007
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 Rockets, Reality, Reason, and Remorse January 5, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was a surprising read. I loved this book, but it has two very distinct sides. One is funny, self-confident, brash, accomplished. The other is grim, unsure, depressing, an expose of institutional politics and culture at it's soul (and life) destroying worst. It's not all photo ops and champange. This is why I like it and yet sometimes found it hard to read. From childhood to semi-retirement, this is about a person, the flaws he honestly admits to, and the not so 'Leave it to Beaver' world he lives in. The first part was very entertaining and anecdotal- very funny. The second was more interesting and down to the nitty gritty: an inside account of what NASA was like, and still may be like. It also exposes how the media, and having to deal with the media, changes how people respond and behave. The true stresses of this kind of life and career are huge. It wasn't the book I thought it would be, but I am very glad to have read it.
 Buy it October 8, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What an incredible book. A real page turner. An honest and personal account of the shuttle program.
Simply Outstanding - Wonderful Read! October 5, 2007
This was an amazing book! Extremely entertaining from start to finish. An honest, in-depth account of the early space shuttle program is overdue and Mike created just that. With 3 flights under his belt, Mike is more than qualifed to tell this story. I highly recommend this book.
Riding Rockets Rocks August 31, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This not the normal book about space adventure; it tells the real story with true humor. Enjoy!
A true inside look at the STS program August 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
WOW!!!!!!!!!! Want to know what it's really like to be inside the Shuttle astronaut program... this is your book!! Col. Mullane gives us a true inside feel for what it's like to be an STS astronaut. Hardly a page went by that I didn't laugh out loud!! Oh dear... I also found out that I too am from Plant AD!!
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