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Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut james nestor books from the Deep South toAuthor Contributor(s): Mullane, Mike Publisher: Scribner Date: 2 6 2007 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW NASA astronaut Mike Mullane delivers a hilariously candid and often raw astronaut memoir of life in the Space Shuttle era. Selected in 1978 as part of the groundbreaking astronaut classthe first to include womenMullane exposes the unfiltered reality behind the heroic veneer of NASA. His stories bounce between bawdy military flyboy antics,