EAN: 9781523509614

HOW TO ASTRONAUT - TERRY VIRTS GEBUNDEN

A wildly entertaining account of the rules  lessons  procedures  and experiences of space
travel  How to Astronaut is a book 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.

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