Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the

Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket thatâ€™s about to go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour?

Or to look back on Earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to stand in front of the Hubble Space Telescope, wondering if the emergency repair youâ€™re about to make will inadvertently ruin humankindâ€™s chance to unlock the universeâ€™s secrets? Mike Massimino has been there, and in Spaceman he puts you inside the suit, with all the zip and buoyancy of life in microgravity.

Massiminoâ€™s childhood space dreams were born the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Growing up in a working-class Long Island family, he catapulted himself to Columbia and then MIT, only to flunk his first doctoral exam and be rejected three times by NASA before making it through the final round of astronaut selection.

Taking us through the surreal wonder and beauty of his first spacewalk, the tragedy of losing friends in the Columbia shuttle accident, and the development of his enduring love for the Hubble Telescopeâ€”which he and his fellow astronauts were tasked with saving on his final missionâ€”Massimino has written an ode to never giving up and the power of teamwork to make anything possible.

Spaceman invites us into a rare, wonderful world where science meets the most thrilling adventure, revealing just what having â€œthe right stuffâ€ really means.
Country USA
Manufacturer Crown Archetype
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-10-04
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9781101903551

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Crown Archetype
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-10-04
Format	Kindle eBook
EANs	9781101903551

Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

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