You don't need any endurance to read this book. If the rest of the book reads like this First Impression, it is unputdownable and you will finish it before the ISS has circled the earth.
Instead of a scientific exposé, Scott has managed to draw me in immediately by his personal and engaging style.
He is not the high-school-nerd-turned-astronaut. Scott is living proof that you can become an astronaut even if you don't ace high school. Wow!
I read 'The Right Stuff' by Tom Wolfe, as Scott did, and it inspired him, but not in a way you would expect. What draws him to space is the challenge of "doing something difficult, risking your life for it, and surviving." This makes for a promising memoir: I expect insightful flash backs to his youth and his trajectory that launched him into orbit.
He writes so well: in just a few pages he makes you feel the effects of long term space flight. Now I want to know more about not only the physical effects of circling the earth in non-gravity for 365 days, but also in the psychological toll it takes on a person. This is a book I want to read.
At first I found the cover a bit predictable. But staring at it a bit longer I notice that it immediately makes clear what kind of endurance the book is about: floating in space instead of with both feet on the ground. it's quite a challenge to be the first one doing this.
Instead of a scientific exposé, Scott has managed to draw me in immediately by his personal and engaging style.
He is not the high-school-nerd-turned-astronaut. Scott is living proof that you can become an astronaut even if you don't ace high school. Wow!
I read 'The Right Stuff' by Tom Wolfe, as Scott did, and it inspired him, but not in a way you would expect. What draws him to space is the challenge of "doing something difficult, risking your life for it, and surviving." This makes for a promising memoir: I expect insightful flash backs to his youth and his trajectory that launched him into orbit.
He writes so well: in just a few pages he makes you feel the effects of long term space flight. Now I want to know more about not only the physical effects of circling the earth in non-gravity for 365 days, but also in the psychological toll it takes on a person. This is a book I want to read.
At first I found the cover a bit predictable. But staring at it a bit longer I notice that it immediately makes clear what kind of endurance the book is about: floating in space instead of with both feet on the ground. it's quite a challenge to be the first one doing this.