A review by kalira
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut by Mike Mullane

Did not finish book.
I picked this book up after Mary Roach mentioned it in Packing for Mars, and I expected better - it was self-centred without, somehow, being terribly focused on the person whose memoir this is? And yet, Mike Mullane managed to come off as supremely unlikable and obnoxiously entitled. Shining moments include talking about lying several times to get into the NASA program and other, later phases, and waving it off - even seeming proud of it, even when he could have caused actual harm - and his description of his first meeting with Sally Ride, when he made inappropriate sexist comments, in front of their boss, on their first meeting, and described her poorly for not finding this funny/tolerable.
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