How to Astronaut - Terry Virts

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: Heres 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 youre 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
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