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Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir (ISBN 0-88730-783-3) 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.

• Personnel covered in the book
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  Astronaut Jerry Linenger
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  Astronaut John Blaha
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  Astronaut Michael Foale
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  Cosmonaut Aleksandr Lazutkin
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  Cosmonaut Vasili Tsibliyev
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  Cosmonaut Valeri Korzun
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  Co-chair, Flight Operations and Systems Integration Working Group, Energia, Viktor Blagov
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  Frank Culbertson
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  Blaine Hammond
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  Deputy Associate Administrator for the Office of Space Flight, George Abbey

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