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

Massimino, Mike

 
9781471149528: Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1471149528 ISBN 13: 9781471149528
Verlag: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2016

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Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal what 'the right stuff' truly is. Many children dream of becoming an astronaut when they grow up, but when NASA rejected him, he kept on trying. Even being told his poor eyesigh would mean he could never make it didn't stop him; he simply trained his eyes to be better. Finally, at the third time of asking, NASA accepted him.
So began Massimino's 18-year career as an astronaut, and the extraordinary lengths he went to to get accepted was only the beginning. In this awe-inspiring memoir, he reveals the hard work, camaraderie and sheer guts involved in the life of an astronaut; he vividly describes what it is like to strap yourself into the Space Shuttle and blast off into space, or the sensation of walking in space, as he did when he embarked on an emergency repair of the Hubble telescope. He also talks movingly about the Columbia tragedy, and how it felt to step into the Space Shuttle again in the aftermath of that disaster.
Massimino was inspired by the film The Right Stuff, and this book is not only a tribute to those fellow astronauts he worked with, but also a stunning example of someone who had exactly those attributes himself.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Mike Massimino served as an astronaut for NASA between 1996 and 2014, going on two missions to service the Hubble telescope, spending more than 30 hours on spacewalks. He has appeared as himself on The Big Bang Theory and is now a professor at the University of Columbia. He lives in New York.

Tanner Colby is the author and co-author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller The Chris Farley Show. He is a frequent contributor to Slate magazine, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Verlag
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1471149528
ISBN 13 
9781471149528
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
336
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