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To Helene, with love.
Your confidence, impetus and endless help
made these dreams come true.
CONTENTS
Introduction: Mission Impossible
 
Part I – PRE-LAUNCH
1: The Trip Takes a Lifetime
2: Have an Attitude
3: The Power of Negative Thinking
4: Sweat the Small Stuff
5: The Last People in the World
6: What’s the Next Thing That Could Kill Me?
 
Part II – LIFTOFF
7: Tranquility Base, Kazakhstan
8: How to Get Blasted (and Feel Good the Next Day)
9: Aim to Be a Zero
10: Life off Earth
11: Square Astronaut, Round Hole
 
Part III – COMING DOWN TO EARTH
12: Soft Landings
13: Climbing Down the Ladder
 
Acknowledgments
Index
Illustrations
INTRODUCTION
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
THE WINDOWS OF A SPACESHIP casually frame miracles. Every 92 minutes, another sunrise: a layer cake that starts with orange, then a thick wedge of blue,
then the richest, darkest icing decorated with stars. The secret patterns of our planet are revealed: mountains bump up rudely from orderly plains, forests are green gashes edged with snow, rivers
glint in the sunlight, twisting and turning like silvery worms. Continents splay themselves out whole, surrounded by islands sprinkled across the sea like delicate shards of shattered
eggshells.
Floating in the airlock before my first spacewalk, I knew I was on the verge of even rarer beauty. To drift outside, fully immersed in the spectacle of the universe while holding onto a
spaceship orbiting Earth at 17,500 miles per hour—it was a moment I’d been dreaming of and working toward most of my life. But poised on the edge of the sublime, I faced a somewhat
ridiculous dilemma: How best to get out there? The hatch was small and circular, but with all my tools strapped to my chest and a huge pack of oxygen tanks and electronics strapped onto my back, I
was square. Square astronaut, round hole.
The cinematic moment I’d envisioned when I first became an astronaut, the one where the soundtrack swelled while I elegantly pushed off into the jet-black ink of
infinite space, would not be happening. Instead, I’d have to wiggle out awkwardly and patiently, focused less on the magical than the mundane: trying to avoid snagging my spacesuit or getting
snarled in my tether and presenting myself to the universe trussed up like a roped calf.
Gingerly, I pushed myself out headfirst to see the world in a way only a few dozen humans have, wearing a sturdy jetpack with its own thrusting system and joystick so that if all else failed, I
could fire my thrusters, ............

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