NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? NASA astronaut Mike Massimino shares incredible true stories from space -- a rare, wonderful world where science meets the most thrilling adventure.

"Mike is a spaceman through and through; he tells how hard work can take you out of this world." -- Bill Nye the Science Guy

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that's about to go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour? Or to look back on Earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to stand in front of the Hubble Space Telescope, wondering if the emergency repair you're about to make will inadvertently ruin humankind's chance to unlock the universe's secrets?

Mike Massimino has been there, and in Spaceman he puts you inside the suit, with all the zip and buoyancy of life in microgravity.

Massimino's childhood space dreams were born the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Growing up in a working-class Long Island family, he catapulted himself to Columbia and then MIT, only to flunk his first doctoral exam and be rejected three times by NASA before making it through the final round of astronaut selection.

Taking us through the surreal wonder and beauty of his first spacewalk, the tragedy of losing friends in the Columbia shuttle accident, and the development of his enduring love for the Hubble Telescope -- which he and his fellow astronauts were tasked with saving on his final mission -- Massimino has written an ode to never giving up, revealing just what having "the right stuff" really means.

• We started tracking this book on October 4, 2016.
• This book was $13.99 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 94 times in the past 3,107 days.
• The current price of this book is $8.99 last checked 7 hours ago.
• This book is at its lowest price in the past 90 days.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past year is $5.99.
• The lowest price to date was $1.99 last reached on December 9, 2020.
• This book has been $1.99 2 times since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was $14.99 last reached on September 2, 2024.
• This book has been $14.99 9 times since we started tracking it.

• Text-to-Speech: Disabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 319 Pages
• File Size: 641 KB