Sharing Space

An Astronaut's Guide to Mission, Wonder, and Making Change

Cady Coleman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2024
Penguin USA (Verlag)
978-0-593-49401-1 (ISBN)

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In 2010, the day after her fiftieth birthday - and despite having faced feedback for years that she was not astronaut material - Cady Coleman boarded a rocket and blasted off into space for her third NASA mission, the only woman on her six-person crew. She may have been an 'unexpected' astronaut, but her determination and her experiences give her a unique perspective on life here on Earth. In Sharing Space, Cady shares counterintuitive insights integral to her success, such as how to leverage insecurities to beat expectations, how to know when to adapt and when to press for change, and how to be the glue that holds a disparate team together. Illustrated with stories from her life and training, from meteorite hunting in Antarctica to the two weeks she spent living in an underwater habitat to the magic of spending six months living and working in zero gravity, this book will inspire anyone eager to escape a box in which they have been (unfairly) placed or develop the confidence to succe

Catherine Coleman is a chemist, an engineer, a former United States Air Force colonel, and a retired NASA astronaut. She is also now a highly regarded media adviser and on-air expert, known for her STEM/STEAM advocacy. Most recently Coleman co-anchored Netflix and Time’s livestream coverage of the SpaceX launch of four civilians into space (she had helped coach them) and, as a regular ABC contributor, co-anchored its special reports covering the SpaceX launches and the Perseverance Mars rover landing.

Erscheinungsdatum	18.05.2024
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 236 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
ISBN-10	0-593-49401-6 / 0593494016
ISBN-13	978-0-593-49401-1 / 9780593494011
Zustand	Neuware