How to astronaut : an insider's guide to leaving planet earth
by Virts, Terry, 1967- (Author)
Summary
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 nat... Full description
- 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?