Endurance

Having spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Scott Kelly returns to earth to share his stunning memoir--a candid account of his remarkable voyage, of the journeys off the planet that preceded it, of his colorful formative years, and of a future mission to Mars.


     The veteran of four space flights and the American record-holder for consecutive days in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly inimical to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenge of long-term spaceflight, both existential and banal; the devestating effects on the body, the isolation from everyone he loves and the comforts of Earth, the pressures of constant close cohabitation; the… Keep Reading