num_pages: 368
description: A revealing memoir of the astronaut's career with the space shuttle program describes his childhood dreams after the launch of Sputnik, work as a Mission Specialist in the first group of shuttle astronauts, and hundreds of hours spent aboard the Discovery and Atlantis. 60,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
titlecomplete: Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
genres: Autobiography, Nonfiction, Aviation, History, Space, Memoir, Biography Memoir, Adventure, Science, Biography
ratings_count: 4320
publisher: Scribner