Spaceman
An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
(Sprache: Englisch)
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that's about to go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour?
Or to look back on Earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to...
Or to look back on Earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to...
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that's about to go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour?Or to look back on Earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to stand in front of the Hubble Space Telescope, wondering if the emergency repair you're about to make will inadvertently ruin humankind's chance to unlock the universe's secrets? Mike Massimino has been there, and in Spaceman he puts you inside the suit, with all the zip and buoyancy of life in microgravity.
Massimino's childhood space dreams were born the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Growing up in a working-class Long Island family, he catapulted himself to Columbia and then MIT, only to flunk his first doctoral exam and be rejected three times by NASA before making it through the final round of astronaut selection.
Taking us through the surreal wonder and beauty of his first spacewalk, the tragedy of losing friends in the Columbia shuttle accident, and the development of his enduring love for the Hubble Telescope-which he and his fellow astronauts were tasked with saving on his final mission-Massimino has written an ode to never giving up and the power of teamwork to make anything possible.
Spaceman invites us into a rare, wonderful world where science meets the most thrilling adventure, revealing just what having "the right stuff" really means.
Autoren-Porträt von Mike Massimino
Mike Massimino served as an astronaut with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1996 to 2014. He is the veteran of two NASA space flights, STS-109 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in March 2002 and STS-125 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis in May 2009. Mike has costarred in the film Hubble IMAX 3D, played himself on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory , appeared on T he Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson . A graduate of Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mike currently lives in New York City.From the Hardcover edition.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mike Massimino
- 2016, 336 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Maße: 15,4 x 23,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Crown Archetype
- ISBN-10: 0451497279
- ISBN-13: 9780451497277
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
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