Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery, by Scott KellyRead about the other entries on the list.
For some, going to space is a once- or twice-in-a-career occurrence. For Scott Kelly, going to space is his career. This dude has spent about as much time in space as you’ve spent in an office. He’s been on four different space flights and no American has ever spent more time in space. He’s the perfect guinea pig—and now literary expert—on the effects of long-term spaceflight on the human body, brain, and spirit. He writes unflinchingly about being in space, and the difficulty of returning to civilian life. Especially interesting is Kelly’s report of a fascinating experiment in which he took part. To study exactly what space does to the body, NASA studied his earthbound twin brother and compared his aging process to that of Kelly…who spent an entire year in the outer limits.
Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery is among Jeff Somers's top twenty books by people who experienced something few others have.
--Marshal Zeringue
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