Clayton C. Anderson

The Ordinary Spaceman

From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut

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Produktbeschreibung

Clayton Anderson recounts his quest to become an astronaut and his experiences during his fifteen years as an astronaut.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 146mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9781496234735
• ISBN-10: 1496234731
• Artikelnr.: 64541148

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