The rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail, from the greatest expert on British trains Christian Wolmar 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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Published: 09/01/2021
ISBN: 9780241456200
Pages: 400