posted 03-29-2020 11:36 AM               

A wildly entertaining account of the rules, lessons, procedures, and experiences of space travel, How to Astronaut is a book that will appeal to anyone — male or female, young or old — with even a passing interest in space.

Written by Col. Terry Virts, a former astronaut, space shuttle pilot, and International Space Station commander who spent 200 consecutive days in space, it answers all of our curious questions and much more: Here's how to survive that first brush with weightlessness (in the so-called vomit comet); the nearly indescribable thrill of a first blastoff; managing the daily tasks — eating, bathing, doing chores, going to the bathroom — that are anything but ordinary when you're orbiting the earth at 17,000 miles per hour; how to don your space suit and head out to work on a spacewalk ("alone in the vacuum"); how to prepare for emergencies of all kinds, from managing "space brain" to dealing with a dead crew member; and what it's like to return to Earth, including something as seemingly simple as walking after spending six months in zero-g.

A born storyteller, Virts reveals the often-untold side of space travel in 51 short chapters filled with a mix of you-are-there detail, a dose of science made simple, and the inherent drama of describing something few will ever know firsthand.

• Hardcover: 304 pages
  
• Workman Publishing Company (September 15, 2020)
  
• ISBN-10: 1523509619
  
• ISBN-13: 978-1523509614

posted 09-02-2020 11:34 AM               

You can enter for a chance to win a virtual happy hour session with me and a telescope from Meade! Visit here for all the details and fill out the form. Anyone that pre-orders a copy of the book before September 15 can enter this giveaway.

posted 09-15-2020 10:21 AM               

Virtual book tour dates released! I hope you enjoy my new book "How To Astronaut". For more dates check out here.