Astronaut Biography

In this book filled with exclusive interviews with Canadian astronauts and key players in the Canadian space program, Elizabeth Howell showcases how a little space program is making it big in the universe.

She was a wife, mother, teacher, and the first civilian to fly into space, but Christa’s dream tragically ended on a cold January day with the needless explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Lisa Nowak, högt ansedd astronaut, sätter sig i sin bil, spänner upp ögonen och kör sträckan Houston till Orlando. Fjorton timmar senare, knappt utan mat eller toalettstopp, är hon framme, beredd att göra upp med kvinnan som i hennes ögon står i vägen för hennes och kollegan Bill Oefeleins eviga kärlek. En snabb titt ner i hennes bagage ger sken om illabådande intentioner: förutom kontanter kan man hitta en hammare, en fällkniv, latexhandskar och Colleen Shipmans, den romantiska rivalen, adress nedklottrat.

Today the Space Race is widely viewed poignantly and fondly as a race to the Moon that culminated with Apollo 11 “winning” the Race for the United States. In fact, it encompassed a much broader range of competition between the Soviet Union and the United States...On February 20, 1962, John Glenn orbited the Earth, nearly a year after Gagarin’s orbit, and he remains best known for that historic feat...this audiobook profiles his life, chronicles his historic space mission, and details all the highlights before and after it.

When Richard Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004, his goal was simple: to offer paying customers a trip to space by the end of the decade. Seventeen years, countless delays, and one catastrophic crash later, his space tourism dream may finally be on the verge of becoming a reality. New Yorker journalist Nicholas Schmidle knows that story intimately. He spent nearly four years embedded with Virgin Galactic at its California hangar, meeting the individuals working to make commercial space travel possible.