Clayton C. Anderson

Ordinary Spaceman (eBook, ePUB)

From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What's it like to travel at more than 850 MPH, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine airplane? What happens when the space station toilet breaks? How do astronauts "take out the trash" on a spacewalk, tightly encapsulated in a space suit with just a few layers of fabric and Kevlar between them and the unforgiving vacuum of outer space?The Ordinary Spaceman puts you in the flight suit of U.S. astronaut Clayton C. Anderson and takes you on the journey of this small-town boy from Nebraska who spent 167 days living and working on the International Space Station, including more than forty hours of space walks. Having applied to NASA fifteen times over fifteen years to become an astronaut before his ultimate selection, Anderson offers a unique perspective on his life as a veteran space flier, one characterized by humility and perseverance.From the application process to launch aboard the space shuttle Atlantis, from serving as a family escort for the ill-fated Columbia crew in 2003 to his own daily struggles-family separation, competitive battles to win coveted flight assignments, the stress of a highly visible job, and the ever-present risk of having to make the ultimate sacrifice-Anderson shares the full range of his experiences. With a mix of levity and gravitas, Anderson gives an authentic view of the highs and the lows, the triumphs and the tragedies of life as a NASA astronaut.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803277311
• Artikelnr.: 42711843

Autorenporträt

Clayton C. Anderson retired in 2013 after a thirty-year career with NASA and two missions to the International Space Station. He is currently the president and CEO of the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum in his hometown of Ashland, Nebraska. Anderson is the author of It’s a Question of Space: An Ordinary Astronaut’s Answers to Sometimes Extraordinary Questions (Nebraska, 2018), as well as the children’s books A is for Astronaut: Blasting Through the Alphabet and Letters from Space. Nevada Barr is an award-winning novelist and best-selling author of the Anna Pigeon series.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Nevada Barr
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. First Flight
2. Beginnings
3. Freshman Fifteen
4. Hey, There’s an App for That!
5. Answer the Phone, Will Ya?
6. Baby Astronauts
7. Hail Columbia!
8. Age of Aquarius
9. From Russia with Love
10. Survival of the Fittest
11. Sign of the Times
12. Sixty-Two and Counting
13. Dark Days of Summer
14. Crime and Punishment
15. The “Void” of Outer Space
16. The Doctor Is In
17. The Hard Thump of Reality
18. The Serendipity of Chance
19. Walking Tall
20. Fame and Fortune
21. Find Us Faithful
22. Impacts
23. The End Becomes the Beginning