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Topic:	Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope by Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]A review copy of "Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope" just arrived at my door, and last night I was able to purchase the e-book on my iPad. A full and closer-read is necessary, but for space shuttle history enthusiasts who may be interested, there are two chapters devoted to the STS-134 final mission of Endeavour. Kelly focuses the chapters mostly on his interaction before, during and after flight with his wife (including reprinting the letter he wrote to her in the case that he didn't return from space). Most of the mission details are what you can read in the NASA press kit, but Kelly shares some personal anecdotes surrounding the flight. In addition to he being scolded for speeding around Pad 39A the night before the launch (he and Giffords were in a NASA-provided convertible), Kelly recounts how his needing to split his time between training and his wife's recovery meant that some of the lesser pre-flight checks were missed. Fortunately, he had a twin who was also an astronaut... <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]One problem early on was a "wardrobe malfunction." Before the launch, when I was busy with Gabby's care and my mission training, there were things that I just didn't have time for: inconsequential stuff, like trying on the pants I'd wear in flight. I put on my first pair of pants and realized that there had been a mistake. All of my pants were made for someone who was way taller than six feet. The pants weren't even close to my size. Fortunately, my brother had left pants on the space station, which I found and used for the rest of the flight. It was only one pair, but it was better than freakishly-long, giant pants.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> A photo taken just after Kelly and his STS-134 crewmates arrived on the station show the commander wearing the "freakishly-long, giant pants" — cuffed — before he could locate and wear his twin brother's pair that were left on board. <center><a href="http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-134/html/s134e007107.html" TARGET="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/gabby_couragehope03.jpg" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="300" BORDER="0"></A></center>[/B][/QUOTE]
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