What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything
Little, Brown and Company
November 2013
On Sale: October 29, 2013
282 pages ISBN: 0316253014 EAN: 9780316253017 Kindle: B00DTUHIDA Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an
astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 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.
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