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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NASA astronaut Mike Massimino shares incredible true stories from spacea rare, wonderful world where science meets the most thrilling adventure.Mike is a spaceman through and through; he tells how hard work can take you out of this world.Bill Nye the Science GuyHave you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket thats about to go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour? Or to look back on Earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to stand in front of the Hubble Space Telescope, wondering if the emergency repair youre about to make will inadvertently ruin humankinds chance to unlock the universes secrets?Mike Massimino has been there, and in Spaceman he puts you inside the suit, with all the zip and buoyancy of life in microgravity.Massiminos childhood space dreams were born the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Growing up in a workingclass Long Island family, he catapulted himself to Columbia and then MIT, only to flunk his first doctoral exam and be rejected three times by NASA before making it through the final round of astronaut selection.Taking us through the surreal wonder and beauty of his first spacewalk, the tragedy of losing friends in the Columbia shuttle accident, and the development of his enduring love for the Hubble Telescopewhich he and his fellow astronauts were tasked with saving on his final missionMassimino has written an ode to never giving up, revealing just what having the right stuff really means.
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