Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir () is a 1999 book by Bryan Burrough about the Russian Mir space station and the cosmonauts and astronauts who served aboard. The story centres on astronaut Jerry Linenger and the events on the Shuttle and Mir Space Programme in 1997.
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Image:Jerry Linenger.jpg|Astronaut Jerry Linenger
Image:John Elmer Blaha.jpg|Astronaut John Blaha
Image:Michael_Foale.jpg|Astronaut Michael Foale
Image:Lazutkin.jpg|Cosmonaut Aleksandr Lazutkin
Image:Tsibliyev.jpg|Cosmonaut Vasili Tsibliyev
Image:NASA KorzunGrigorievichValery.jpeg|Cosmonaut Valeri Korzun
Image:Viktor_blagov.jpg|Co-chair, Flight Operations and Systems Integration Working Group, Energia, Viktor Blagov
Image:Frank_Culbertson_Jr.jpg| Frank Culbertson
Image:L_Blaine_Hammond.jpg| Blaine Hammond
Image:George_Abbey.gif| Deputy Associate Administrator for the Office of Space Flight, George Abbey
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See also
- The Buran Spacecraft designed as an equivalent to the US Space Shuttle.
- The Energia Rocket, designed to serve as an expendable launch system for the soviet space programme.
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, the launch base in Kazakhstan.
- Ethylene glycol, the anti-freeze which leaked on board Mir.
External links
- Houston, We Have a Problem. New York Times Review
- NASA Photo Gallery for STS-84 mission