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Letters from MIR
« Thread Started on Jan 15, 2004, 12:53pm »

I got this one today, and its a great read.

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After circling the planet 2,000 over the course of 132 days, battling ragin fires, power outages, and a near collision with an incoming spacecraft, astronaut Dr. Jerry Linenger returned to Earth from his stay aboard the failing Russian space station, MIR.
Waiting to embrace him were his wife and young son. For five months, he watched over them from his solitary, and often perilous, post among the stars - uncertain he would ever see his family again.

He stayed connected by writing - down-linked letters to his son, speaking from the heart to express the thoughts and feelings of a loving father to hsi child. Now, gathered together in this emotional and charming book, these "Letters from MIR" share one father's inspiring meditations on life and destiny, and the wryly playful pearls of wisdom he sent to his son from a long and lonely 'business trip' in space.

Jerry M. Linenger also wrote "Off the Planet" which I will probably also get. His accounts of his time in space are very vivid amd expressive too.

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