Hadfield is definitely leaning heavily towards the inspiring part, and does so with admirable grace and aplomb. Other anatomical changes associated with long-duration space flight are definitely negative: the immune system weakens, the heart shrinks because it doesn’t have to strain against gravity, eyesight tends to degrade, sometimes markedly (no one’s exactly sure why yet).

In our everyday lives it makes a difference to whether or not something works out as well as it should, in space it could be the difference between coming home alive or ending lives in an inferno. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps of experience, the everyday moments, or to value only the grandest, most stirring ones. And it’s easy to do once you understand that you have a vested interest in your co-workers’ success. All are valuable lessons to be learned but I felt it needed more about the daily life on ISS or the interesting behind the scenes things about how a kid from Sarnia, Canada, makes it to command the ISS (which we do hear about, but I wanted more). Opening the hatch always takes longer than anyone would want, because first the crew has to ascertain that the impact of docking hadn’t damaged the Soyuz.It is about seeing other astronauts "cut in line" in front of you, and helping them in their projects and prospects. A certain personality type that was perfectly acceptable, even stereotypical, in the past - the real hard-ass, say - is not wanted on the voyage when it is going to be a long one. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Chris does a great job of painting a picture of what it is like on a day in the life of the International Space Station. I took courses in HTML, web publishing and had a short stint as an intern in the Goodreads IT department. Chris Hadfield decided to become an astronaut after watching the Apollo moon landing with his family on Stag Island, Ontario, when he was nine years old, and it was impossible for Canadians to be astronauts. This book, to be honest, has left me in sheer envy at the life of a man who knew exactly what he wanted and became so good at what he did that he created his own philosophy. Garbage disposal is by sending everything back in the small supply rockets that are sent up to them.Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Houston, we have a superstar' Washington Post 'Hadfield has done more than probably any astronaut since the Apollo missions to transform the image of space exploration . The book was saved from utter repellency as I found interest in the insights within NASA and Roscosmos. When you can’t even go outside to let off steam, personality conflicts can compromise a mission or derail it altogether. Lessons which in fact seemed to go against conventional thinking and life coaching such as visualising success, not sweating the small stuff and not caring about what others think.

I've just been out, to a beach club with some local music and changed my mind to come home and listen to it.The majority of this book is Chris explaining how well trained astronauts are and the way he became an astronaut.