Spaceman : the true story of a young boy's journey to becoming an astronaut

Author

Mike Massimino

Call Number

• J 921 MASSIMINO (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, [2020]

Physical Description

xviii, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (chiefly color) ; 22 cm

Audience

Ages: 9 to 12.

Summary

"The story of Mike Massimino's life growing up in a working-class family and his determination to get the education and experience that would lead to his challenging but successful rise to become a NASA astronaut"--

Notes

"Adapted for young readers" --Title page.

Contents

• Prologue: A science fiction monster
• A perfect good
• Most all-around
• Who you gonna get?
• The smart-kid olympics
• Force feedback
• Human factors
• Disqualified
• Yes or no
• There's Mach I
• Spacewalker
• Shackleton mode
• Seeing beyond the stars
• Ready to go
• Weightless
• Earth is a planet
• Maybe this is heaven
• February 1, 2003
• Why we go
• From the ashes
• One last job
• Line 28
• Grounded
• Epilogue: Around the next corner.