It takes the average reader 5 hours to read Off The Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard The Space Station MIR by Jerry M. Linenger
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
“An engrossing report.”—Booklist “Vividly captures the challenges and privations [Dr. Linenger] endured both before and during his flight.”—Library Journal Nothing on earth compares to Off the Planet—Dr. Jerry Linenger’s dramatic account of space exploration turned survival mission during his 132 days aboard the decaying and unstable Russian space station Mir. Not since Apollo 13 has an American astronaut faced so many catastrophic malfunctions and life-threatening emergencies in one mission. In his remarkable narrative, Linenger chronicles power outages that left the crew in complete darkness, tumbling out of control; chemical leaks and near collisions that threatened to rupture Mir’s hull; and most terrifying of all—a raging fire that almost destroyed the space station and the lives of its entire crew.
Off The Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard The Space Station MIR by Jerry M. Linenger is 300 pages long, and a total of 75,000 words.
This makes it 101% the length of the average book. It also has 92% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 49 minutes to read Off The Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard The Space Station MIR aloud.
Off The Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard The Space Station MIR is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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