Dimensions
240 x 289 x 26mm
In this unprecedented collection of personal stories, 77 space shuttle astronauts - the largest number ever in one volume - share their recollections of living and working on board the world's only reusable spaceships over the past 20 years.
Through written submissions and original interviews with the editors of 'Air & Space/Smithsonian' magazine, the astronauts tell in candid detail what it's really like to launch into orbit, float weightless, conduct spacewalks, view the Earth from 200 miles up, build a space station and manipulate seven-tonne satellites by hand. Their stories of adventure, surprise, fear and awe take us behind the scenes to a wondrous place that few people can visit for themselves.
The photographs in the book, many of them published here for the first time, were collected from deep in the NASA archives to portray the shuttle experience from the astronaut's point of view.
