num_pages: 295
description: Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane and been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft. The secret to Col. Hadfield's success-and survival-is an unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst-and enjoy every moment of it. In An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth Col. Hadfield takes readers deep into his years of training and space exploration to show how to make the impossible possible. Through eye-opening entertaining stories filled with the adrenaline of launch the mesmerizing wonder of spacewalks and the measured calm responses mandated by crises he explains how conventional wisdom can get in the way of achievement-and happiness. His own extraordinary education in space has taught him some counterintuitive lessons: don't visualize success do care what others think and always sweat the small stuff. You might never be able to build a robot pilot a spacecraft make a music video or perform basic surgery in zero gravity like Col. Hadfield. But his vivid and refreshing insights will teach you how to think like an astronaut and will change completely the way you view life on Earth-especially your own.
language: English
title: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
publisher: Little, Brown and Company