Ask an Astronaut: My Guide to Life in Space (Official Tim Peake Book)

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These astronauts, however, were responding to the new and unexplored by photographing their experiences inside their spacecraft and outside in the vacuum of space. We were in a Cold War-a space race-and NASA had already chosen the Mercury Seven to represent America. There’s also a rather unsubtle Space-X stand-in that serves as a cautionary tale about corporate greed.

Perhaps the most poignant: trying to avoid tearing up during his first EVA spacewalk on the Hubble Space Telescope when he experienced seeing the wonder of our blue-dot, water-world Earth from space. I love science and science fiction – stories are one of the most powerful ways we relate to the Universe. 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.The stories you’ll read here will show you why we are who we are and why humans will always strive for the unknown.

You'll learn plenty about space and what it takes to be an astronaut, but you'll also sharpen up your broader knowledge. Using real-life photographs and comic-format speech bubbles, the book is narrated by a real astronaut. All of our gifts are shipped without including an invoice, so that the gift can be shipped straight to the recipient. Playing space games with Grandpa is one of Sherman’s most favourite things ever so he’s thrilled to hear that’s exactly what a visit to Grandpa will involve. Join Lamby as he whizzes through the stars, lands on the moon and meets a rock which is not as it seems!

Including Tom Hanks ( Apollo 13 ) who had used the book as an essential guide toward the production of HBO’s From the Earth to the Moon . That vast cast has been streamlined for the purposes of a novel, but it largely holds together as both narrative and realism. A funny and fascinating how-to guide for budding astronauts, providing a crash course on what it takes to travel into space. This richly illustrated book draws on Tim Peake’s first-hand experience of applying to be an astronaut in 2008, when he and five others were chosen – out of over 8,000 applications!