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How to Astronaut: An Insiders Guide to Leaving Planet Earth Audiobook, by Terry Virts Play Audiobook Sample

How to Astronaut: An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth Audiobook

How to Astronaut: An Insiders Guide to Leaving Planet Earth Audiobook, by Terry Virts Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Terry Virts Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 7.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: September 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781649040015

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

56

Longest Chapter Length:

31:04 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

15 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

12:12 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

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, in 51 brief chapters.

 

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"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"

Quotes

  • “Virts’ firsthand accounts are richly detailed and…hilarious.”

    — Discover
  • “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
  • “Amusing and enlightening…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

Awards

  • Nominated for the Reading the West Book Award

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About Terry Virts

Colonel Terry Virts earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the United States Air Force Academy in 1989, and a master of aeronautical science degree in aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Selected by NASA in 2000, he was the pilot of STS-130 mission aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. In March 2015, Virts assumed command of the International Space Station, and spent over 200 days on it. Virts is one of the stars (and photographers) of the IMAX film, A Beautiful Planet, released in April 2016. He is also the author of View from Above. He lives near Houston.