ANNOUNCEMENT: TIM PEAKE, NEW BOOK ON HISTORY OF SPACE TRAVEL12th Apr, 2023Tim Peake announces a major new book Space: The Human Story to be published on 26th October 2023 . Only 628 people in human history have left Earth. In Space: The Human Story, Peake traces the lives of these remarkable men and women who have forged the way, from Yuri Gagarin to Neil Armstrong, from Valentina Tereshkova to Peggy Whitson. Full of exclusive new stories, and astonishing detail only an astronaut would know, the book conveys what space exploration is really like: the wondrous view of Earth, the surreal weightlessness, the extraordinary danger, the surprising humdrum, the unexpected humour, the newfound perspective, the years of training, the psychological pressures, the gruelling physical toll, the thrill of launch and the trepidation of re-entry. The book also examines the surprising, shocking and often poignant stories of astronauts back on Earth, whose lives are forever changed as they readjust to terra firma.
Read the book. It’s a pretty good book as an overall look at human spaceflight but very much concentrated on US & Russian missions, even the other British astronauts before him don’t get that much coverage. I imagine it’s more targeted at the general audience than people on forums like this, that said there was still plenty of stuff that was new to me.
Quote from: Star One on 12/18/2023 09:54 amRead the book. It’s a pretty good book as an overall look at human spaceflight but very much concentrated on US & Russian missions, even the other British astronauts before him don’t get that much coverage. I imagine it’s more targeted at the general audience than people on forums like this, that said there was still plenty of stuff that was new to me.That’s a good summary. I got the book for Xmas and just finished it. It’s a fun and easy read. The book contains lots of stories and anecdotes from the history of human spaceflight. Many may be familiar to people on this forum, but there were many stories too that I had never heard before. Perhaps not surprisingly there’s a bias towards the early days in the 1960s and 70s, with some from the shuttle and ISS too (of course including Tim’s own experiences). Recommended.
Read the book. It’s a pretty good book as an overall look at human spaceflight but very much concentrated on US & Russian missions, even the other British astronauts before him don’t get that much coverage. I imagine it’s more targeted at the general audience than people on forums like this, that said there was still plenty of stuff that was new to me.
