Endurance
My Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
(Sprache: Englisch)
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The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile to human life. He describes...
The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile to human life. He describes...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenges of long-term spaceflight-the devastating effects on the body, the isolation from everyone he loves and the comforts of Earth, the pressures of constant close cohabitation, and the catastrophic risks of depressurization or colliding with space junk. But perhaps the most haunting challenge is that of being unable to help should tragedy strike at home, something Kelly knows about firsthand.
Kelly's humanity, compassion, humor, and passion resonate throughout, as he recalls his rough-and-tumble New Jersey childhood and the youthful inspiration that sparked his astounding career. Here, in his personal story, we see the triumph of the human imagination, the strength of the human will, and the infinite wonder of the galaxy.
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Prologue I m sitting at the head of my dining room table at home in Houston, finishing dinner with my family: my longtime girlfriend, Amiko; my daughters, Samantha and Charlotte; my twin brother, Mark; his wife, Gabby; his daughter, Claudia; our father, Richie; and Amiko s son, Corbin. It s a simple thing, sitting at a table and eating a meal with those you love, and many people do it every day without giving it much thought. For me, it s something I ve been dreaming of for almost a year. I contemplated what it would be like to eat this meal so many times, now that I m finally here, it doesn t seem entirely real. The faces of the people I love that I haven t seen for so long, the chatter of many people talking together, the clink of silverware, the swish of wine in a glass these are all unfamiliar. Even the sensation of gravity holding me in my chair feels strange, and every time I put a glass or fork down on the table there s a part of my mind that is looking for a dot of Velcro or a strip of duct tape to hold it in place. I ve been back on Earth for forty-eight hours.
I push back from the table and struggle to stand up, feeling like an old man getting out of a recliner.
Stick a fork in me, I m done, I announce. Everyone laughs and encourages me to go and get some rest. I start the journey to my bedroom: about twenty steps from the chair to the bed. On the third step, the floor seems to lurch under me, and I stumble into a planter. Of course it wasn t the floor it was my vestibular system trying to readjust to Earth s gravity. I m getting used to walking again.
That s the first time I ve seen you stumble, Mark says. You re doing pretty good. He knows from personal experience what it s like to come back to gravity after having been in space. As I walk by Samantha, I put my hand on her shoulder and she smiles up at me.
I make it to my bedroom without incident and close the door behind me. Every part of my body hurts. All of my joints and all
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of my muscles are protesting the crushing pressure of gravity. I m also nauseated, though I haven t thrown up. I strip off my clothes and get into bed, relishing the feeling of sheets, the light pressure of the blanket over me, the fluff of the pillow under my head. All of these are things I missed dearly. I can hear the happy murmur of my family behind the door, voices I haven t heard without the distortion of phones bouncing signals off satellites for a year. I drift off to sleep to the comforting sound of their talking and laughing.
A crack of light wakes me: Is it morning? No, it s just Amiko coming to bed. I ve only been asleep for a couple of hours. But I feel delirious. It s a struggle to come to consciousness enough to move, to tell her how awful I feel. I m seriously nauseated now, feverish, and my pain has gotten worse. This isn t like how I felt after my last mission. This is much, much worse.
Amiko, I finally manage to say.
She is alarmed by the sound of my voice.
What is it? Her hand is on my arm, then on my forehead. Her skin feels chilled, but it s just that I m so hot.
I don t feel good, I say.
I ve been to space four times now, and she has gone through the whole process with me as my main support once before, when I spent 159 days on the space station in 2010 11. I had a reaction to coming back from space that time, but it was nothing like this.
I struggle to get up. Find the edge of the bed. Feet down. Sit up. Stand up. At every stage I feel like I m fighting through quicksand. When I m finally vertical, the pain in my legs is awful, and on top of that pain I
A crack of light wakes me: Is it morning? No, it s just Amiko coming to bed. I ve only been asleep for a couple of hours. But I feel delirious. It s a struggle to come to consciousness enough to move, to tell her how awful I feel. I m seriously nauseated now, feverish, and my pain has gotten worse. This isn t like how I felt after my last mission. This is much, much worse.
Amiko, I finally manage to say.
She is alarmed by the sound of my voice.
What is it? Her hand is on my arm, then on my forehead. Her skin feels chilled, but it s just that I m so hot.
I don t feel good, I say.
I ve been to space four times now, and she has gone through the whole process with me as my main support once before, when I spent 159 days on the space station in 2010 11. I had a reaction to coming back from space that time, but it was nothing like this.
I struggle to get up. Find the edge of the bed. Feet down. Sit up. Stand up. At every stage I feel like I m fighting through quicksand. When I m finally vertical, the pain in my legs is awful, and on top of that pain I
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Autoren-Porträt von Scott Kelly
SCOTT KELLY is a former military fighter pilot and test pilot, an engineer, a retired astronaut, and a retired U.S. Navy captain. A veteran of four space flights, Kelly commanded the International Space Station (ISS) on three expeditions and was a member of the yearlong mission to the ISS. During the Year in Space mission, he set records for the total accumulated number of days spent in space and for the single longest space mission by an American astronaut. He lives in Houston, Texas.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Scott Kelly
- 2018, 464 Seiten, Maße: 19,8 x 12,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: VINTAGE
- ISBN-10: 0525432434
- ISBN-13: 9780525432432
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.09.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Captivating, charming . . . . [Kelly] pulls back the curtain separating the myth of the astronaut from its human realities. . . . It is easy to imagine future generations of explorers and daredevils harnessing the lessons and truths within the pages of Endurance as the blueprints for their own trips into the unknown. Jaroslav Kalfar, The New York Times Book Review[Endurance] is a memoir of the right stuff that will hypnotize any space geek. The Wall Street Journal
Kelly brings life in space alive the wonder and awe of it, and also the jagged edges, the rough parts of living in confined quarters in an alien element, far from everything familiar and beloved. . . . Endurance, with its honest, gritty descriptions of an unimaginable life, a year off Earth, is as close as most readers will come to making that voyage themselves. The Financial Times
Kelly s account is insightful, at times humorous, heart-tugging at others. And it s inspiring enough to change the life of some lost kid, just like The Right Stuff did for him. USA Today
For space junkies, it s absolutely required reading. . . . We feel as though we re right there with him. A great book. Booklist
Scott Kelly s saga is a deeply absorbing and vivid look at a year in space and the many trials and rigors of living weightless inside a football field-sized machine traveling at 17,000 miles per hour. But Endurance satisfies far more than the reader s technological curiosities; it is replete with humor, thrills, surreal details, and recurring moments of ordinary humanity that turn Kelly s tale into a loving tribute to the pioneering individuals who risk all to shepherd man s exploration of the vast beyond. Khaled Hosseini, author of And the Mountains Echoed
Read this book and you will believe in our American future, thrill at our human potential, and laugh at the absurdities of life. Endurance is about excellence and perspective, a memorable read.
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Senator Bill Bradley
This isn t your usual astronaut s memoir. The Philadelphia Tribune
Scott Kelly s book is as close as I and most everyone else on Earth will ever get to experiencing the fascinating, complex, almost preposterously dangerous business of going into space. When I closed the covers, I felt like I had been out there. Endurance is an utterly gripping book that can stand comfortably in the company of Tom Wolfe s The Right Stuff. Charles C. Mann, author of 1491
Scott Kelly s memoir of his year in space and all that preceded it is the real thing honest, dramatic, illuminating, and simply riveting. With clear, compelling writing, he reveals the nature of space exploration, the current state of the space program, and the raw experience of leaving Earth as has no other book. T.J. Stiles, author of Custer s Trials
This isn t your usual astronaut s memoir. The Philadelphia Tribune
Scott Kelly s book is as close as I and most everyone else on Earth will ever get to experiencing the fascinating, complex, almost preposterously dangerous business of going into space. When I closed the covers, I felt like I had been out there. Endurance is an utterly gripping book that can stand comfortably in the company of Tom Wolfe s The Right Stuff. Charles C. Mann, author of 1491
Scott Kelly s memoir of his year in space and all that preceded it is the real thing honest, dramatic, illuminating, and simply riveting. With clear, compelling writing, he reveals the nature of space exploration, the current state of the space program, and the raw experience of leaving Earth as has no other book. T.J. Stiles, author of Custer s Trials
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