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    How to Astronaut: An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth
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    How to Astronaut: An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth
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    How to Astronaut: An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth

    Written by Terry Virts

    Narrated by Terry Virts

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    About this audiobook

    A wildly entertaining account of the rules, lessons, procedures, and experiences of space travel, How to Astronaut is an audiobook that will appeal to anyone— male or female, young or old—with even a passing interest in space. Written by Col. Terry Virts, a former astronaut, space shuttle pilot, and International Space Station commander who spent 200 consecutive days in space, it answers all of our curious questions and much more: Here’s how to survive that first brush with weightlessness (in the so-called vomit comet); the nearly indescribable thrill of a first blastoff; managing the daily tasks—eating, bathing, doing chores, going to the bathroom— that are anything but ordinary when you’re orbiting the earth at 17,000 miles per hour; how to don your space suit and head out to work on a spacewalk (“alone in the vacuum”); how to prepare for emergencies of all kinds, from managing “space brain” to dealing with a dead crew member; and what it’s like to return to Earth, including something as seemingly simple as walking after spending six months in zero-g.

    A born storyteller, Virts reveals the often-untold side of space travel in 51 short chapters filled with a mix of you-are-there detail, a dose of science made simple, and the inherent drama of describing something few will ever know firsthand.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWorkman Audio
    Release dateSep 15, 2020
    ISBN9781649040015
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    How to Astronaut: An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth
    Author

    Terry Virts

    Colonel Terry Virts earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the United States Air Force Academy in 1989, and a master of aeronautical science degree in aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Selected by NASA in 2000, he was the pilot of STS-130 mission aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. In March 2015, Virts assumed command of the International Space Station, and spent over 200 days on it. Virts is one of the stars (and photographers) of the IMAX film, A Beautiful Planet, released in April 2016. He is also the author of View from Above (National geographic, 2017). He lives near Houston.

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    • 5/5
      Col. Virts is readable, friendly, “genki”, as we say in Japan; like some astronuts—Col. Chris Hadfield comes to mind—Virts is sharing with you his day-to-day journey in frozen and wet wastes in survival training, progress at NASA, and adventures space. What I liked was his description of a moment of freedom on his Extravehicular Activity (space walk); that’s what I look for when reading astronaut narratives—how they are touched by the essence of their cognitive, intellectual and existential viewpoint of their excruciatingly fortunate and arduous opportunities. His speech on his near death experiences as a pilot give great perspective as well—into what it takes for one to develop and steel the mettle necessary for a pilot astronaut to be chosen by NASA and to fly “Shuttle.”

      I highly recommend this book. One drawback for those who want more tech is, there is less tech, here—but plenty of human experience—and if you’re not into that, you’re not into astronauts!

      Happy reading!

      Carl Atteniese
      Tokyo
      man-do.jp