
How to Astronaut
An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth
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Terry Virts
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Terry Virts
Former NASA astronaut Terry Virts offers an insider's guide to astronauting—a behind-the-scenes look at the training, the basic rules, lessons, and procedures of space travel, including how to deal with a dead body in space, what it’s like to film an IMAX movie in orbit, what exactly to do when nature calls, and much more, in 51 brief chapters.
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Critic reviews
"There's something intriguing to be learned on practically every page… This book captures the details of an extraordinary job, and turns even the mundane aspects of space travel into something fascinating." — Publishers Weekly
"How to Astronaut is an amusing and enlightening insight into an astronaut's work life.... This is an eye-opening insider's view on what it's really like to be an astronaut: the joys, the dangers, the fear, and the day-to-day reality of it. Virts' writing is humorous, playful, down to earth, and often wise." — Booklist
"Virts' firsthand accounts are richly detailed and often snort-milk-out-of-your-nose hilarious." — Discover
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Thank you for your honesty and insight, Terry Virts.
A listening experience
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Don't miss this book.
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A fun book to hear
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Thanks for sharing!
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Fantastic! Highly recommended.
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The ending chapters kind of killed the book for me. I can understand that he felt a greater being but his justification for it seemed quite a stretch. The talk about isolation also didn’t seem to really fit or really be the same as his other experiences. The acknowledgments while nice were just way to long.
Had I left off with the talk about visiting outer space I would have enjoyed this better.
Interesting but
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awesome information!
Defiantly a great listen.
I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in these kinds of things. It does not read like a manual which is nice.
Thank you for writing this book Terry,
I enjoyed it very much. :D
Awesome book! Loved it.
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True to the title
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The Merits of Discipline
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Great book!
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