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Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft, and become a YouTube sensation with his performance of David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' in space. The secret to Chris Hadfield's success - and survival - is an unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst - and enjoy every moment of it.
In his book, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Chris Hadfield takes readers deep into his years of training and space exploration to show how to make the impossible possible. Through eye-opening, entertaining stories filled with the adrenaline of launch, the mesmerizing wonder of spacewalks and the measured, calm responses mandated by crises, he explains how conventional wisdom can get in the way of achievement - and happiness. His own extraordinary education in space has taught him some counterintuitive lessons: don't visualize success, do care what others think, and always sweat the small stuff.
You might never be able to build a robot, pilot a spacecraft, make a music video or perform basic surgery in zero gravity like Colonel Hadfield. But his vivid and refreshing insights in this book will teach you how to think like an astronaut, and will change, completely, the way you view life on Earth - especially your own.
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This is not a typical memoir-- it's not organized chronologically, from childhood to the present day. Instead of following a linear time line, Col. Hadfield uses his experiences to illustrate larger points and themes, which makes the book much more compelling and readable than the usual celebrity memoir. (Of course, the guy isn't your usual celebrity, either -- he's famous for actually having DONE something.) For instance, there's a whole chapter on the power of negative thinking and how that has helped him "neutralize" his own fear. He's not telling you how to live your life, only how he's lived his, but the book forces you to ask certain questions of yourself, while the narrative powers along at a fast clip because his life has just been so damned interesting and unusual. There's a lot more to him than was evident on Twitter, starting with a dry sense of humor. I inhaled this book and came away from it not just entertained but thinking in a slightly different way about life, the universe and everything. Highly recommended.
Don't get me wrong, reading about the ins and outs of astronaut recruitment and life is interesting. That said, I was hoping for more relatable tidbits about the hard parts of life and work and how he, in arguably one of the hardest and most stressful jobs on and off the planet, was able to overcome them. However, almost the entirety of the story was about him working very, very hard and making the right choices and being patient. That's all well and good, but I didn't want to hear the boy scout edition of the story. I wanted to hear the real, gritty truth about marriage, family, co-workers, stress, preparation, career advancement from someone who achieved what Hadfield did. I didn't find that here, so it was hard for me to emotionally attach. A lot of it felt like a mini-lecture from an older sibling or a professor.
However, there are some anecdotes from this book that I thought were extremely useful for explaining human behavior, particularly in the workplace. Those were definitely worth it.
I'm a Chris Hadfield fan - I will admit that first up. I bought this because of that initially. However, it was absolutely not what I was thinking it would be. Part motivational, part life lessons, part autobiography, this book is eminently readable and written in easy to read language and easy to digest sentences.
Hadfield gets his message across telling the story of his career as an Astronaut - and what he did to get there. I have to say that from this, now I am absolutely a fan of his wife, who must surely be the most supportive woman around!
Humour flows through the book, but he doesn't gloss over how dangerous situations he has been in were, nor does he gloss over the pain of loosing friends in space missions.
This book will appeal to a wide range of people - from those who want to know what being an astronaut is like (and your eyes will be opened wide - I know mine were) to those looking for a creed to live their life by.
If you enjoyed Chris Hadfield's tweets and reports from the ISS, then I can guarantee you will enjoy this book. There are a heap of photos at the back of the kindle edition of the book (instead of scattered through it) - so don't assume that the last chapter is the end of the book!
OK, I admit it - I'm something of a space junkie. As an engineer, I have been fascinated by accounts of the US space program during the 60s and the extremely fast pace of space technology development. On a more personal level I was less than two months old when STS-1 inaugurated the Shuttle era, and as a kindergartener I witnessed the Challenger disaster in my school classroom. I begged my parents to send me to Space Camp. As a child I dreamed of becoming an astronaut and going into space, but as I got older I realized that was unlikely to ever happen - that hasn't stopped me from having an interest in both manned and unmanned space exploration. I have my own DVD copies of From the Earth to the Moon, When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions and In the Shadow of the Moon, and have read several astronauts' memoirs including Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space by John Young, The Last Man on the Moon by Gene Cernan, and Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell and Jeremy Kluger. What is lacking thus far in the astronaut memoir genre is much in the way of writing from Shuttle-era astronauts.
Enter Chris Hadfield. He is everything you'd expect of a Canadian astronaut; a quietly competent team player and family man who wanted to become an astronaut from the age of 9 when he watched the first moon landing. In 21 years with the CSA/NASA, Hadfield was a mission specialist on two Shuttle flights and commanded the ISS before his retirement, and held a variety of positions within the astronaut office when not training for a mission. Commander Hadfield became perhaps the most social media-savvy astronaut ever, with a huge following on Twitter and Youtube. Our 3 year old still asks to look at Commander Hadfield's videos taken on the ISS, and loves what she calls "the space song" - Is Somebody Singing, the collaboration between Hadfield and the Barenaked Ladies, which was billed as the first song debuted from space.
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth is an enjoyable read about Hadfield's early life, his years as a fighter pilot and test pilot, his selection in the Canadian Space Agency's second group of astronauts, and his training for three missions in space. The book is written in a conversational tone and does not shy away from the risks and rewards involved in being an astronaut and the stresses it sometimes placed on family life. It is a thoroughly enjoyable read and I recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about life as an astronaut during the Shuttle/ISS era.
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