The public portrayal of Scott Kelly, on it's surface, is not anything like Scott Kelly in his youth. This is what you will find out in this fascinating autobiography by him. Risk taker, renegade, a terrible student, are not descriptions of Scott that you would think of but he was all of those things and more.
As young as six years of age, he and his brother Mark would climb up drainpipes, wave at their parents from roofs two and three stories up, and if you did anything considered "safe," you were wasting your time.
What goes into the makeup of an astronaut like Scott Kelly, a compassionate and humorous man who holds the record for total accumulated number of days spent in space by an American astronaut? Totally absorbing.
As young as six years of age, he and his brother Mark would climb up drainpipes, wave at their parents from roofs two and three stories up, and if you did anything considered "safe," you were wasting your time.
What goes into the makeup of an astronaut like Scott Kelly, a compassionate and humorous man who holds the record for total accumulated number of days spent in space by an American astronaut? Totally absorbing.