How to astronaut : an insider's guide to leaving planet earth / Terry Virts.
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TextPublisher: New York : Workman Publishing, [2020]Description: ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781523509614
- 1523509619
- 629.450092Â 23
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| Book | Iola Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Iola Public Library | Adult Books | 629.45 Virts, Terry (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34311002855030 |
Includes an index.
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?
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.
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