The Ordinary Spaceman – From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut Anderson Barr Paperback

The Ordinary SpacemanFrom Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut\nAuthor(s): Clayton C. Anderson, Nevada Barr\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9781496234735, 978-1496234735\nSynopsis\nWhats it like to travel at more than 850 MPH, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine airplane? What happens when the space station toilet breaks? How do astronauts take out the trash on a spacewalk, tightly encapsulated in a space suit with just a few layers of fabric and Kevlar between them and the unforgiving vacuum of outer space?\n\nThe Ordinary Spaceman puts you in the flight suit of [url] astronaut Clayton C. Anderson and takes you on the journey of this small-town boy from Nebraska who spent 167 days living and working on the International Space Station, including nearly forty hours of space walks. Having applied to NASA fifteen times over fifteen years to become an astronaut before his ultimate selection, A.