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How to Astronaut

An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth

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How to Astronaut

By: Terry Virts
Narrated by: Terry Virts
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Former NASA astronaut Terry Virts offers an insider's guide to astronauting—a behind-the-scenes look at the training, 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!​

"There's something intriguing to be learned on practically every page ... [How to Astronaut] captures the details of an extraordinary job and turns even the mundane aspects of space travel into something fascinating."––Publishers Weekly

Ride shotgun on a trip to spacewith astronaut Terry Virts. A born storyteller with a gift for the surprising turn of phrase and eye for the perfect you-are-there details, he captures all the highs, lows, humor, and wonder of an experience few will ever know firsthand. Featuring stories covering survival training, space shuttle emergencies, bad bosses, the art of putting on a spacesuit, time travel, and much more! Aeronautics & Astronautics Astronomy Astronomy & Space Science Cosmology Science Interstellar
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Critic reviews

"There's something intriguing to be learned on practically every page… This book captures the details of an extraordinary job, and turns even the mundane aspects of space travel into something fascinating."
—Publishers Weekly

"How to Astronaut is an amusing and enlightening insight into an astronaut's work life.... 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. Virts' writing is humorous, playful, down to earth, and often wise."
—Booklist

"Virts' firsthand accounts are richly detailed and often snort-milk-out-of-your-nose hilarious."
—Discover
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Interesting book about lots of different aspects of being an astronaut and travelling into space. I enjoyed it.

Interesting and something different

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Not particularly an astronaut I had heard of, his background and experience made this a very interesting and fascinating listen. Also with the benefit of having the author read the book that I find enhances audiobooks. The book covers aspects of spaceflight I had not heard described before, some personal insights and thoughts, and a book I will almost certainly listen to again in the future. Highly recommended for anyone with an interest in space.

Interesting and fastinating. An excellent listen.

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This book was fascinating and fully immersive. I loved it and couldn't put it down.

Amazing!

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This wasn’t the kind of book i would usually pick. I had actually heard Terry Virts reading a sleep story of some of another of his books and loved the way he talked about and described his time in space. This is what made me look for more. It wasn’t the book i was looking for but this one peaked my interest. I’m glad i bought it. It kept me interested throughout. It was funny in parts and actually really inspiring. I liked the honesty, the humour, hearing about Terrys life before and during his career as an astronaut and especially loved his words of wisdom as a summary to the end of each chapter. A really good listen all round and i would highly recommend it.

Interesting throughout

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