How to Astronaut
An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth
New York : Workman Publishing, [2020]
Format: Book
Description: ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Contents:
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?
Subjects:
Virts, Terry, 1967-
Astronautics -- Biography.
Astronauts -- United States -- Biography.
Manned space flight -- Biography.
Menus for space flight -- Biography.
Space flight training -- Biography.
Virts, Terry, 1967-
Astronautics -- Biography.
Astronauts -- United States -- Biography.
Manned space flight -- Biography.
Menus for space flight -- Biography.
Space flight training -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781523509614
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
TRANSPORT Air/Space Vir | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Nonfiction | In |