Liftoff!: An Astronaut's Dream

✍ Scribed by Mike Mullane

• Publisher: Silver Burdett Press
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 100
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As a young boy growing up in New Mexico, Mike Mullane built homemade rockets and dreamed of one day flying into space. His dream became a reality in the late 1980s when he completed three missions aboard the space shuttles Discovery, and Atlantis. In this riveting, firsthand narrative, Mullane presents a minute-by-minute account of one of those missions. An inspiring true story, it encourages young people everywhere to dare to pursue their dreams, whatever they may be.