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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
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Publisher Description
This audiobook is fascinatingly read by the author, Chris Hadfield.
Back on the earth after three spaceflights, Chris Hadfield's captivating memoir An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth reveals extraordinary stories from his life as an astronaut, and shows how to make the impossible a reality.
Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft. The secret to Col. Hadfield's success – and survival – is an unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst – and enjoy every moment of it.
In An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Col. Hadfield takes readers deep into his years of training and space exploration to show how to make the impossible possible. Through eye-opening, entertaining stories filled with the adrenaline of launch, the mesmerizing wonder of spacewalks and the measured, calm responses mandated by crises, he explains how conventional wisdom can get in the way of achievement – and happiness. His own extraordinary education in space has taught him some counterintuitive lessons: don't visualize success, do care what others think, and always sweat the small stuff.
You might never be able to build a robot, pilot a spacecraft, make a music video or perform basic surgery in zero gravity like Col. Hadfield. But his vivid and refreshing insights will teach you how to think like an astronaut, and will change, completely, the way you view life on Earth – especially your own.
Customer Reviews
Star wandering
Chris brings us the ultimate experience of living his dream of becoming an astronaut where the listener dives deep into the story of someone who dedicates his life to explore everything beyond our living zone and enters the universe and its beauty and danger. We witness a life full of preparation and strategy to fulfill the mission without fail and we get a discovering insight of what a man must take upon himself to sustain a clear mind and body to be sent up the skies. The conditions for a man to be an astronaut are close to impossible and Chris shows us the almost un-human efforts to achieve all this on behalf of our kind.