How to astronaut : an insider's guide to leaving planet earth
(2020)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
629.45/VIRTS,T
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Workman Publishing, [2020]
©2020
©2020
DESCRIPTION
ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781523509614, 1523509619 :, 1523509619, 9781523509614
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes an index
Introduction: not your father's astronaut book: but he'll like it too! -- Training -- Launch -- Orbit -- Spacewalking -- Deep space -- Re-entry -- Afterword: isolation: better on Earth or in space?
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