Overall, "How to Astronaut" is a must-read for anyone who is passionate about space exploration or curious about the human experience of leaving Earth. My interest in space history began with stamp collecting and continued much later with visits to Russian archives, Star City, and aerospace companies, and interviews with cosmonauts and space engineers, who often told their personal stories for the first time.

Lifts the lid on what space is like: the dedication and sacrifice; the politics and pantomime; the practicalities and the peril; the glory and fame; the adjustment back to normal life. The only hope lies in the Olympus Project, a plan to colonise the moon and build on the Artemis Base.

All of our gifts are shipped without including an invoice, so that the gift can be shipped straight to the recipient. Perhaps the most poignant: trying to avoid tearing up during his first EVA spacewalk on the Hubble Space Telescope when he experienced seeing the wonder of our blue-dot, water-world Earth from space. As a former astronaut and commander of the International Space Station, Virts provides a comprehensive and insightful insider's guide to all things related to leaving our planet. When something goes wrong, it is picked apart in terms we understand, and the situation is either resolved or abandoned in a logical fashion. What's more, I pursued a career in astronomy so I could do my part to explore worlds beyond the Earth.

Featuring 100 real astronaut tests and exercises from the European Space Agency’s rigorous selection process, ranging from easy to fiendishly hard, The Astronaut Selection Test Book goes where no puzzle book has gone before. View From Above" is my first, and I am very proud to say that it is a National Geographic book featuring some of my best photographs from space, as well as many stories of "what it was like to be there," during launch, landing, spacewalks, observing the earth, and even one of the most rare and potentially dangerous emergencies we could have on the space station. The stories you’ll read here will show you why we are who we are and why humans will always strive for the unknown. Of all the astronauts, Cernan might have been my first choice as a dinner companion; I’d have loved to talk with him about his three EVAs covering 22 hours of lunar exploration.

Each title in this stylish series has five spreads with friendly characters to find behind colourful felt flaps.

text that is accessible, relevant and interesting will mean it hooks budding scientists who are desperate to learn more for themselves. This is an eye-opening insider's view on what it's really like to be an astronaut: the joys, the dangers, the fear, and the day-to-day reality of it.Astronaut Tim Peake traces the lives of the remarkable men and women who have forged the way for humanity beyond Earth, from Yuri Gagarin to Neil Armstrong, from Valentina Tereshkova to Peggy Whitson. Based on extensive interviews with women astronauts and cosmonauts, this remarkable book traces the thorny path of women into the elite corps of space travelers.

This passion (nudged along by shows like Doctor Who, UFO, and Star Trek) eventually led to degrees in Physics and Astrophysics from Oxford.Featuring stories covering survival training, space shuttle emergencies, bad bosses, the art of putting on a spacesuit, time travel, and much more! The most thrilling of all journeys--the missions of the Apollo astronauts to the surface of the Moon and back--yielded 32,000 extraordinarily beautiful photographs, the record of a unique human achievement.