Scott Kelly is one of the more renowned astronauts in late time , having make out a phonograph record - breaking year - farsighted stay on the ISS from March 2015 to March 2016 . Now the NASA astronaut has a unexampled autobiography come out , and it provides some rather fascinating detail about his time in distance .
The al-Qur’an is calledEndurance : A Year in Space , A Lifetime of Discovery , and it’son saleTuesday , October 17 . One of the major revelations in the book , revealed in an interview with theAssociated Press , actually come from Kelly ’s previous space mission in 2010 .
He describes how back then , Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka derive untethered from the International Space Station ( ISS ) during a spacewalk . It was only thanks to make an antenna that he rove back towards the place . Kelly did not instruct about this incident until five year later on .
“ I was like really ? Holy poop . Crazy , ” he said .
" I ’ve often pondered what we would have done if we ’d recognize he was drifting irretrievably aside from the station , " he wrote in his volume about the incident .
" It probably would have been possible to tie his family into the comm system in his spacesuit so they could say good - bye before the rising CO2 or oxygen want caused him to lose consciousness – not something I wanted to spend a draw of meter thinking about as my own spacewalk was come near . "
Yep , that ’s pretty torturing .
Kelly also unwrap the reasons for his first marriage break off down – he realized he did n’t need to go through with the nuptials but did anyway . And he pronounce he did n’t need to initially go to the ISS ( “ space station stink ” he calls it ) as he wanted to keep flying the Space Shuttle .
Speaking toTexas Monthly , he also trace a moment where he nearly got hit by space junk , not too dissimilar to the filmGravity .
“ At the time , you think , if we get strike , we will be vaporized , ” he said . “ There ’s no two way about it ; it would be like a atomic explosion . But it ’s not something worth consist on . ”
Kelly ’s book does n’t baffle around the bush , get straight to the point on aspects of spaceflight and his own personal living . astronaut might sometimes come up across as being a bit reserved ; Kelly is anything but .
His military mission , along with Russian spaceman Mikhail Kornienko , will be polar in helping us plan to get to Mars ( or , now , the Moon ) . The NASATwins Studyis also still ongoing , to see how Scott ’s body exchange in space compare to his duplicate brother , Mark , who remained on Earth .
For a no - holds - barred view on space , Kelly ’s might be one worth moderate out .
