Title:
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The ordinary spaceman : from boyhood dreams to astronaut /
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Authors:
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Clayton C. Anderson, Author
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Material Type:
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book
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Publisher:
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[S.l.] : University of Nebraska Press, 2015
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ISBN / ISSN / EAN :
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978-0-8032-6282-9
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Size:
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348 p. / col. ill. / 23 cm
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Languages:
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English
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Class number:
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TL789.85.A3A54
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Subjects:
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Anderson, Clayton C.,--1959-
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Astronauts--United States--Biography
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Manned space flight
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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Biography
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Description:
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A memoir chronicling Clayton Anderson's quest to become an astronaut. From his childhood to working for NASA, and then eventually becoming an astronaut"--"What's it like to travel at more than 850 MPH, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine airplane? What happens when the space station toilet breaks? How do astronauts 'take out the trash' on a spacewalk, tightly encapsulated in a space suit with just a few layers of fabric and Kevlar between them and the unforgiving vacuum of outer space? The Ordinary Spaceman puts you in the flight suit of U.S. astronaut Clayton C. Anderson and takes you on the journey of this small-town boy from Nebraska who spent 167 days living and working on the International Space Station, including more than forty hours of space walks.
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