Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir

Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir (ISBN 0-88730-783-3) is a book by Bryan Burrough about the Russian Mir space station and the cosmonauts and astronauts who served aboard. The story centres around astronaut Jerry Linenger and the events on the Shuttle and Mir Space Programme in 1997.

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

[edit] Further Reading

Many space topics are touched upon in the book, more information on these can be found in Wikipedia using the links below.

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.