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How to Astronaut

An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth

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How to Astronaut

Written by: Terry Virts
Narrated by: Terry Virts
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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.

©2020 Terry Virts (P)2022 Workman Publishing Company
Astronomy & Space Science

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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

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