Scott Kelly Event

Event Date: October 17th, 2017 at 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Address : 51 Conforti Ave, West Orange, NJ 07052, USA
Town : West Orange
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Scott Kelly Event October 17th $29.95 SKU: 9781524731595 Purchase one copy of Endurance for admission for one to hear Scott Kelly at West Orange High School. One child may attend with a full-paying adult. Please include their name in the notes with your order. Date: October 17th, 2017 Time: 7:30 PM Please select in-store pickup and payment by credit card for proper processing. Books will be available to be picked up at the event. Book Publication Date: October 17th, 2017 The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, astronaut Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have: How does it feel to be launched in a rocket? What happens to your body in zero gravity? What do you do when you get a toothache 250 miles above the Earth? Kelly discusses this and more in his new book, Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery, which recounts his year aboard the ISS as well as his rough-and-tumble New Jersey childhood and what sparked his astounding career, changing his trajectory from an unfocused, below-average student to a record-setting astronaut. Kelly describes navigating the extreme challenges of long-term spaceflight: the devastating physical effects; the pressures of constant close cohabitation; the catastrophic risks of depressurization or colliding with orbital debris; what it’s like to know you won’t be home for a year (and the feeling of being unable to help when tragedy strikes at home). He writes with candor about his journey, in space and on Earth, and tells fascinating (and often funny) stories about the Russian cosmonauts who accompanied him aboard the ISS. As Kelly says—a lesson he’s learned firsthand—“if we can dream it, we can do it.”

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