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Carregando... Diario di un'apprendista astronauta (edição: 2018)de Samantha Cristoforetti (Autor)
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'Today I woke up on Earth. And I will fall asleep in space' In space the sun rises and sets 16 times a day. You fly over every sea, every mountain and desert, every city and every port. The most ordinary things -- eating, sleeping, brushing your teeth or cutting your hair -- have to be relearned, until they become familiar again. This is the story of Samantha Cristoforetti's incredible journey to becoming an astronaut, and her journey beyond Earth. Her voyage as an apprentice astronaut began when she was in her early thirties: five years of intense training around the world, from Houston to Japan to the legendary Star City in Russia. Countless hours spent in centrifuges, spaceship simulators and under water for spacewalk practice. Then, one day, a rocket was waiting for her on the launch pad. And after eight minutes of wild ascent, she was on orbit, crunched up with her two crewmates in a tiny spaceship that took them to the International Space Station. With honesty and warmth, Cristoforetti chronicles the two hundred days she spent on the ISS, the joys and challenges of being in an extraordinary place, from the sublime sight of seeing Earth for the first time to more unusual concerns, such as mastering the art of floating. How do you find your bearings when there is no up and down? What is it like to run in weightlessness? And how do you cook in space? This is an enthralling, inspiring and surprisingly down-to-earth story about what it really takes to pursue your dreams. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Cristoforetti references the popular culture that inspired her, from Star Trek (pg. 2) to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (pg. 96) and Japanese anime (pg. 90). As a pilot, Cristoforetti references Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, one of the first pilots to describe what Tom Wolfe later termed the “right stuff” (pg. 95). Further, Cristoforetti performed her important exercise to maintain bone density while watching Battlestar Galactica on the ISS (pg. 276) and commemorated the twentieth anniversary of Star Trek: Voyager in a Starfleet uniform (pg. 329). These references make her account all the more relatable to those looking to become astronauts who grow up with the same popular culture forging their interest in spaceflight. Further, Cristoforetti explains the importance of literature in inspiring exploration when she writes, “…my first voyages were in books. I doubt whether I’d be an astronaut today if I hadn’t climbed a ladder to the Moon many years ago, if I hadn’t voyaged to the centre of the Earth, if I hadn’t travelled all the way to China with Marco Polo or fought epic battles beside Sandokan… Books gave me words and imagination” (pg. 168).
Astronaut Cristoforetti concludes, “Is it possible to conceive 14 billion years, the estimated age of the universe, more or less, when the span of my own life is at most a century, and my species has handed down its history for only 5,000 years? We’re just the blink of a star. They die giving birth to the atoms we’re made of, but they know nothing of human doings and are indifferent to our flashes of greatness, and the depth of our egos. Perhaps if we looked at things from a cosmic perspective, we’d be more likely to forgive each other our pettiness, to help each other live peacefully during our brief time on Earth” (pg. 316). In this, she evokes the sensibility of Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who described the transformative experience of observing the Earth from space. This is a must-read for space enthusiasts and fans of Cristoforetti’s, as she lived the dream of all sci-fi fans by actually becoming an astronaut. ( )