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Nasa and the crisis aboard mir first edition first printing by bryan burrough isbn. Bryan burrough born august, 1961 in tennessee is an american author and correspondent for vanity fair. Nasa and the crisis aboard mir by bryan burrough online at alibris. During the course of that program, many, many thing went wrong aboard the aging, poorly maintained station, including a fire and a collision that caused an entire module of the station to depressurize. In dragonfly, bryan burrough focuses on the most recent series of space calamities, the troubleplagued visits of american astronauts to russias aging mir space station. In the late 90s, nasa and the russians instituted a program to send us astronauts to the space station mir. The inside story from the universes most outside habitation. On february 12, 1997, two russian cosmonauts joined an american astronaut on board the only permanent manned outpost in space, the dilapidated, elevenyearold mir space station.

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