I ran through my checklists, copied and pasted the review, and thinking of my wife and children who had taken jobs to support this review, uploaded. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft, and become a YouTube sensation with his performance of David Bowie's ‘Space Oddity' in space. Chris Hadfield loves his life, check him out on YouTube if you are unsure, and I found his book to be fascinating, informative and thought provoking. His description of the views from space are almost poetic, indicating that his skills surpass the realm of science and qualify him as a true author.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I was completely captured by his photos from space on Twitter, his videos about life on the International Space Station, and his uncanny ability to make space travel cool again. I've always been fascinated by space and hearing stories from someone who's been there is just amazing. We know most of us will work on Earth and never make it to the ISS, but being an astronaut is a team effort and we are major players in that team.From the hours and hours of training about literally everything possible from making minor repairs on a spacecraft in zero gravity to managing serious emergencies and even a simulation with loved ones on what to do, step by step, when one dies on a space mission. Without gravity, your sinuses don’t clear and your immune system doesn’t fight back as effectively, so you feel much sicker, much longer - and in such a confined space, it’s pretty much guaranteed that the rest of the crew will be infected.

And, predictably, the few of us who were stuck working last week, did what we always do: we griped bitterly, stirring ourselves up in the same old fit of resentment and anger.I was excited he talked about filming videos aboard the ISS and how he went viral, because I recognized several of the videos he’d talked about that I’ve already seen myself. And as my vestibular system adapted during our day of downtime, I started to be able to look out the window for longer and longer periods of time. This education is not in the form of "do this like I did and you will be a more successful person," but more "this is how I became an astronaut and this is how astronauts approach their work.

As an disabled artist who had the privilege of being asked to speak at NASA Houston (on ‘that’ stage, Ie that one sees press conferences and award ceremonies being delivered from! Turning off my little light, I was perfectly at ease in this otherworldly place, knowing that in Houston and Korolev, people in Mission Control were keeping watch as we spun through the sky and into sleep, on our journey around and around the world. If there's one type of videos on YouTube that I can never get enough of, it's space themed videos about performing simple everyday life tasks in space.It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine. Hadfield has genuinely and refreshingly increased our understanding of how to thrive in both places. Instead of visualizing victory, astronauts prepare for the worst; always sweat the small stuff; and do care what others think.