• Complain

Baker& Taylor Books (Firm). - Endurance: a year in space, a lifetime of discovery

Here you can read online Baker& Taylor Books (Firm). - Endurance: a year in space, a lifetime of discovery full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. City: United States, year: 2017, publisher: Alfred A. Knopf;Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, genre: Non-fiction. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

No cover

Endurance: a year in space, a lifetime of discovery: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Endurance: a year in space, a lifetime of discovery" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

A stunning memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station a candid account of his remarkable voyage, the journeys that preceded it, and his colorful formative years. Inside book cover comments.

Baker& Taylor Books (Firm).: author's other books


Who wrote Endurance: a year in space, a lifetime of discovery? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

Endurance: a year in space, a lifetime of discovery — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Endurance: a year in space, a lifetime of discovery" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make
Contents
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A KNOPF Copyright 2017 by Mach 25 - photo 1
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A KNOPF Copyright 2017 by Mach 25 - photo 2

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright 2017 by Mach 25 LLC

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

www.aaknopf.com

Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kelly, Scott, [date]author. | Dean, Margaret Lazarus, [date]author.

Title: Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery / Scott Kelly with Margaret Lazarus Dean.

Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. |

This is a Borzoi book.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017024799 | ISBN 9781524731595 (hardcover) |

ISBN 9781524731601 (ebook) | ISBN 9781524711252 (open market)

Subjects: LCSH : Kelly, Scott, 1964 |

AstronautsUnited StatesBiography.

Classification: LCC TL 789.85. K 45 A 3 2017 | DDC 629.450092 [ B ]dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017024799

Ebook ISBN9781524731601

Cover photograph by Marco Grob / Trunk Archive

Cover design by Chip Kidd

v4.1

a

To Amiko,

with whom Ive shared this journey

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON,

Antarctic explorer and captain of the Endurance, 1915

Contents
A rendering of the International Space Station Detail left - photo 3

A rendering of the International Space Station

Detail left Detail right Prologue - photo 4

Detail left

Detail right Prologue I M SITTING AT the head of my dining room table at - photo 5

Detail right

Prologue
I M SITTING AT the head of my dining room table at home in Houston finishing - photo 6

I M SITTING AT the head of my dining room table at home in Houston, finishing dinner with my family: my longtime girlfriend, Amiko; my daughters, Samantha and Charlotte; my twin brother, Mark; his wife, Gabby; his daughter, Claudia; our father, Richie; and Amikos son, Corbin. Its a simple thing, sitting at a table and eating a meal with those you love, and many people do it every day without giving it much thought. For me, its something Ive been dreaming of for almost a year. I contemplated what it would be like to eat this meal so many times, now that Im finally here, it doesnt seem entirely real. The faces of the people I love that I havent seen for so long, the chatter of many people talking together, the clink of silverware, the swish of wine in a glassthese are all unfamiliar. Even the sensation of gravity holding me in my chair feels strange, and every time I put a glass or fork down on the table theres a part of my mind that is looking for a dot of Velcro or a strip of duct tape to hold it in place. Ive been back on Earth for forty-eight hours.

I push back from the table and struggle to stand up, feeling like an old man getting out of a recliner.

Stick a fork in me, Im done, I announce. Everyone laughs and encourages me to go and get some rest. I start the journey to my bedroom: about twenty steps from the chair to the bed. On the third step, the floor seems to lurch under me, and I stumble into a planter. Of course it wasnt the floorit was my vestibular system trying to readjust to Earths gravity. Im getting used to walking again.

Thats the first time Ive seen you stumble, Mark says. Youre doing pretty good. He knows from personal experience what its like to come back to gravity after having been in space. As I walk by Samantha, I put my hand on her shoulder and she smiles up at me.

I make it to my bedroom without incident and close the door behind me. Every part of my body hurts. All of my joints and all of my muscles are protesting the crushing pressure of gravity. Im also nauseated, though I havent thrown up. I strip off my clothes and get into bed, relishing the feeling of sheets, the light pressure of the blanket over me, the fluff of the pillow under my head. All of these are things I missed dearly. I can hear the happy murmur of my family behind the door, voices I havent heard without the distortion of phones bouncing signals off satellites for a year. I drift off to sleep to the comforting sound of their talking and laughing.

A crack of light wakes me: Is it morning? No, its just Amiko coming to bed. Ive only been asleep for a couple of hours. But I feel delirious. Its a struggle to come to consciousness enough to move, to tell her how awful I feel. Im seriously nauseated now, feverish, and my pain has gotten worse. This isnt like how I felt after my last mission. This is much, much worse.

Amiko, I finally manage to say.

She is alarmed by the sound of my voice.

What is it? Her hand is on my arm, then on my forehead. Her skin feels chilled, but its just that Im so hot.

I dont feel good, I say.

Ive been to space four times now, and she has gone through the whole process with me as my main support once before, when I spent 159 days on the space station in 201011. I had a reaction to coming back from space that time, but it was nothing like this.

I struggle to get up. Find the edge of the bed. Feet down. Sit up. Stand up. At every stage I feel like Im fighting through quicksand. When Im finally vertical, the pain in my legs is awful, and on top of that pain I feel something even more alarming: all the blood in my body is rushing to my legs, like the sensation of the blood rushing to your head when you do a headstand, but in reverse. I can feel the tissue in my legs swelling. I shuffle my way to the bathroom, moving my weight from one foot to the other with deliberate effort. Left. Right. Left. Right.

I make it to the bathroom, flip on the light, and look down at my legs. They are swollen and alien stumps, not legs at all.

Oh, shit, I say. Amiko, come look at this.

She kneels down and squeezes one ankle, and it squishes like a water balloon. She looks up at me with worried eyes. I cant even feel your anklebones, she says.

My skin is burning, too, I tell her. Amiko frantically examines me. I have a strange rash all over my back, the backs of my legs, the back of my head and neckeverywhere I was in contact with the bed. I can feel her cool hands moving over my inflamed skin. It looks like an allergic rash, she says. Like hives.

I use the bathroom and shuffle back to bed, wondering what I should do. Normally if I woke up feeling like this, I would go to the emergency room, but no one at the hospital will have seen symptoms of having been in space for a year. I crawl back into bed, trying to find a way to lie down without touching my rash. I can hear Amiko rummaging in the medicine cabinet. She comes back with two ibuprofen and a glass of water. As she settles down, I can tell from her every movement, every breath, that she is worried about me. We both knew the risks of the mission I signed on for. After six years together, I can understand her perfectly even in the wordless dark.

Next page
Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Endurance: a year in space, a lifetime of discovery»

Look at similar books to Endurance: a year in space, a lifetime of discovery. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.


Reviews about «Endurance: a year in space, a lifetime of discovery»

Discussion, reviews of the book Endurance: a year in space, a lifetime of discovery and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.