An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for AnythingTravel to space and back with astronaut Chris Hadfield's "enthralling" bestseller as your eye-opening guide (Slate). Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft. The secret to Col. Hadfield's success-and survival-is an unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst- and enjoy every moment of it. In An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Col. Hadfield takes readers deep into his years of training and space exploration to show how to make the impossible possible. Through eye-opening, entertaining stories filled with the adrenaline of launch, the mesmerizing wonder of spacewalks, and the measured, calm responses mandated by crises, he explains how conventional wisdom can get in the way of achievement — and happiness. His own extraordinary education in space has taught him some counterintuitive lessons: don't visualize success, do care what others think, and always sweat the small stuff. You might never be able to build a robot, pilot a spacecraft, make a music video or perform basic surgery in zero gravity like Col. Hadfield. But his vivid and refreshing insights will teach you how to think like an astronaut, and will change, completely, the way you view life on Earth — especially your own. "Hadfield proves himself to be not only a fierce explorer of the universe, but also a deeply thoughtful explorer of the human condition." —Maria Popova, Brain Pickings |
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... keep me moving in the right direction, just in case—and I should be sure those things interest me, so that whatever happens, I'm happy.” Back then, much more than today, the route to NASA was via the military, so after high school I ...
... keep me moving in the right direction, just in case—and I should be sure those things interest me, so that whatever happens, I'm happy.” Back then, much more than today, the route to NASA was via the military, so after high school I ...
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... keep our desire a secret anymore. TPS is a direct pipeline to NASA; two of my classmates, my good friends Susan Helms and Rick Husband, made it and became astronauts. It wasn't at all clear, though, if test pilot school would be a route ...
... keep our desire a secret anymore. TPS is a direct pipeline to NASA; two of my classmates, my good friends Susan Helms and Rick Husband, made it and became astronauts. It wasn't at all clear, though, if test pilot school would be a route ...
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... keep me alive and able to breathe if the spacecraft depressurizes in the vacuum of space—because this isn't a run-through. I am actually leaving the planet today. Or not, I remind myself. There are still hours to go, hours when anything ...
... keep me alive and able to breathe if the spacecraft depressurizes in the vacuum of space—because this isn't a run-through. I am actually leaving the planet today. Or not, I remind myself. There are still hours to go, hours when anything ...
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... keep “hawking it,” flipping through my tables and checklists and staring at the buttons and lights over my head, scanning the computers for signs of trouble, trying not to blink. The launch tower is long gone and we're roaring upward ...
... keep “hawking it,” flipping through my tables and checklists and staring at the buttons and lights over my head, scanning the computers for signs of trouble, trying not to blink. The launch tower is long gone and we're roaring upward ...
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... keep me alive in an emergency and what was esoteric and interesting but not crucial. There had been so much to learn, I'd just been trying to cram it all into my brain. During the mission, too, I was in receive mode: tell me everything, ...
... keep me alive in an emergency and what was esoteric and interesting but not crucial. There had been so much to learn, I'd just been trying to cram it all into my brain. During the mission, too, I was in receive mode: tell me everything, ...
Contents
Have an Attitude | |
The Power of Negative Thinking | |
Sweat the Small Stuff | |
The Last People in the World | |
Whats the Next Thing That Could Kill | |
Tranquility Base Kazakhstan | |
Aim to Be a Zero | |
Life off Earth | |
practicalities and logistics of even more ambitious expeditions | |
Square Astronaut Round Hole | |
COMING DOWN TO EARTH | |
Photos | |
Acknowledgments | |
Reading Group Guide | |
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