![]() Scott Kelly’s saga is a deeply absorbing and vivid look at a year in space and the many trials and rigors of living weightless inside a football field-sized machine traveling at 17,000 miles per hour. We feel as though we’re right there with him. USA Todayįor space junkies, it’s absolutely required reading. And it’s inspiring enough to change the life of some lost kid, just like The Right Stuff did for him. Kelly’s account is insightful, at times humorous, heart-tugging at others. Endurance, with its honest, gritty descriptions of an unimaginable life, a year off Earth, is as close as most readers will come to making that voyage themselves. Kelly brings life in space alive-the wonder and awe of it, and also the jagged edges, the rough parts of living in confined quarters in an alien element, far from everything familiar and beloved. is a memoir of the right stuff that will hypnotize any space geek. Jaroslav Kalfar, The New York Times Book Review It is easy to imagine future generations of explorers and daredevils harnessing the lessons and truths within the pages of ‘Endurance’ as the blueprints for their own trips into the unknown. pulls back the curtain separating the myth of the astronaut from its human realities. “The descriptions of Kelly’s comradeship with his Russian colleagues are easily the most endearing parts of the book, and provide some hope in dire geopolitical times…Behind the imposing spacesuit and perfect smile is a three-dimensional person, and Endurance offers brilliant insight into the human aspect of space travel by paying equal attention to the origin story as to its climax among the stars.” - New York TimesĬaptivating, charming. I LEARNED SO MUCH ABOUT THE SPACE PROGRAM FROM A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE." I REALLY LIKE THE FACTD THAT THE AUTHOR NARRATES THE AUDIOBOOK. In Endurance, we see the triumph of the human imagination, the strength of the human will, and the infinite wonder of the galaxy. Kelly's humanity, compassion, humor, and determination resonate throughout, as he recalls his rough-and-tumble New Jersey childhood and the youthful inspiration that sparked his astounding career, and as he makes clear his belief that Mars will be the next, ultimately challenging, step in spaceflight. He describes navigating the extreme challenge of long-term spaceflight, both life-threatening and mundane: the devastating effects on the body the isolation from everyone he loves and the comforts of Earth the catastrophic risks of colliding with space junk and the still more haunting threat of being unable to help should tragedy strike at home-an agonizing situation Kelly faced when, on a previous mission, his twin brother's wife, American Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was shot while he still had two months in space. ![]() Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile to human life. The veteran of four spaceflights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. A stunning, personal memoir from the astronaut and modern-day hero who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station-a message of hope for the future that will inspire for generations to come.
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