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Topic: Off The Planet (Jerry Linenger)
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randy
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From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 08-18-2000 03:56 PM
   
I just finished reading Dr. Jerry Linenger's book "Off the Planet". What an excellent book! I had heard stories through the press about life on Mir, but until I read this book I didn't know just how life threatening Mir really was. It's a great read and I recommend it to anybody who has an interest in space exploration. |
Ben
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From: Daytona Beach, FL
Registered: May 2000
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posted 08-18-2000 10:08 PM
I read "Of the Planet" right after "Dragonfly", which I'd recommend to you. Although Linenger's book is specifically about his mission, it's much better than Buroughs' ...well, 5 stars instead of 4.5!"Off the Planet" is very well written, i.e., in the middle of the fire and conspiracy, he takes time out to talk about "the glories of earth gazing"! Good work, Jerry! |
Ben
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From: Daytona Beach, FL
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posted 01-27-2001 12:33 PM
I think a movie could be put together from these. Hanks can play Linenger. I'm sure he jump at the chance. |
tegwilym
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From: Renton, WA USA
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posted 01-27-2001 11:47 PM
You got my vote on that book too. Jerry really did a great job at describing how it was to be on Mir. I didn't realize how close to a major disaster they were when there was that fire. I also found his description fascinating about how freaked out he got when he was taking that space walk outside of the station.***** 5 stars! Great book. |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-28-2001 01:14 AM
While Hanks is not attached, "Dragonfly" has been optioned by Universal Studios under their production unit Overbrook Entertainment. Will Smith (of "Men In Black") is producing.Geoff Rodkey ("Poltically Incorrect") is currently tasked with converting the book into a screenplay. The movie has tentatively been titled "Star City". (Of course, all the above information is current as of August 1999, the last time an update was made public. What status the film is currently is anyone's guess...) |
sapper82
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posted 02-24-2001 08:05 AM
I just finished Dragonfly and Off the Planet. It's interesting to see where the two books are surprisingly the same and then offer very different points of view. I find Linenger tends to clarify many of the "difficult issues" that Burrough had written off as Jerry's usually abrasive and difficult personality. That being said, off the planet was published two years after Dragonfly and it makes you wonder if he didn't do this intentionally.Has anyone read the Foale account, and does anyone know if Blaha, Thagard, or Lucid wrote personal accounts of their stays on MIR? |
Philip
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From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 03-09-2001 02:14 AM
French Female cosmonaut-physician Claudie André-Deshays wrote a book (only available in French I believe) on her training and her stay onboard MIR, during which two women were onboard... she and Lucid.Does anybody know where Linenger is having a doctor practice these days? |
sapper82
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posted 03-21-2001 08:22 AM
No worries about the language, I'm fluent in French. Do you know who the publisher is by any chance? |
Mike Clennon
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posted 03-21-2001 12:42 PM
I recently heard an interview of Dr. Linenger on the radio and he seems to be a very personable and funny guy. Does any one know is he's doing a book tour? |
thecollector
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posted 03-21-2001 06:36 PM
What is the name of Foale's account? I didn't know he had written one. |
Jacqueline
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posted 05-11-2001 01:51 PM
I have just recently finished a book called "Waystation to the Stars". It is written by Colin Foale, Michael's father. It's a good read. I'm not sure if Michael Faole has written his own account. |
Ben
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From: Daytona Beach, FL
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posted 05-11-2001 02:03 PM
I thought about that before I got Dragonfly. Is it good? Compared to Dragonfly or Off the Planet? Or totally different? |
tegwilym
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From: Renton, WA USA
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posted 05-11-2001 03:48 PM
I have only read half of "Dragonfly" so far, but I would say that "Off the Planet" is definately better! Both are good of course, but I just found that I couldn't stop reading OTP until I was done with it. Excellent - and scary - book. |
Ben
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posted 05-11-2001 07:08 PM
Thanks for the review... maybe later I'll try it. Are there any other Mir books? Did Lucid write anything? I found this once. |
garymilgrom
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From: Atlanta, GA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 06-17-2013 09:42 AM
Read this over the weekend and found it a surprisingly positive counterpart to Dragonfly. I remember that book as constant whining and complaining, but Jerry's book is much less like that. It puts the trials of Mir into perspective by reminding us how large a role was played by his personal life (wife and kids) as a distraction to the troubles in space.As others have said this may have been Jerry's intent as this book was published after Dragonfly, but it remains an interesting account of 5 months aboard the Mir station. Also, given the retirement of the Orbiter fleet, Jerry's comments about the capabilities of the space transportation system are both relevant to future programs and a poignant reminder of what we've lost. |
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