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Sharing Space

An Astronaut's Guide to Mission, Wonder, and Making Change

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"An inspiring, insightful read about how to overcome insecurities, build bonds, and break barriers. There’s no bigger childhood dream than becoming an astronaut, and there’s no bigger adult aspiration than becoming more like Cady Coleman. This is an inside look at what it’s like to be in outer space—and a guide to leading a meaningful life."
—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again
In 2010, Cady Coleman boarded a rocket and blasted off into space for her third NASA mission, a six-month expedition to the International Space Station where she was the only woman on her six-person crew. After years spent overcoming obstacles in competitive, high-performance environments, including grappling with her own doubts and training in a spacesuit that was too big, Coleman became a success story in a role that wasn’t built with her in mind—an astronaut who is also a mother, Air Force colonel, scientist, and leader. Her determination and amazing experiences give her a unique perspective on how to set yourself up for success, in space and here on Earth.
In Sharing Space, Cady shares counterintuitive insights integral to her success, such as how to know when to adapt and when to press for change instead, how to leverage insecurities to beat expectations, and how to be the glue that holds a disparate team together, shaping it to thrive. Illustrated with stories from her life and training, Cady takes readers from meteorite hunting in Antarctica to launching a $1.6 billion telescope into space to the wonder of spending six months living and working in zero gravity. This book will inspire anyone eager to escape a box in which they have been (wrongly) placed and to develop the confidence to succeed, even when they’re not an obvious “fit.”
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    • Library Journal

      November 1, 2023

      Coleman, a chemist, engineer, former U.S. Air Force colonel, and retired NASA astronaut, mines her own fascinating experiences, including being one of the few women astronauts, to give insights on success, leveraging insecurities, and how to build a strong team and work with them in close quarters--or remotely. Prepub Alert.

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Kirkus

      June 1, 2024
      An upbeat memoir from a former astronaut who served on the International Space Station. Coleman, a former colonel in the Air Force, chronicles her 24-year career at NASA, during which she flew two missions on the space shuttle and spent six months on the ISS. Early on at the agency, women were largely ignored. "By the time I got to MIT in 1979, only six women had been selected as NASA astronauts," writes the author. "But seeing Sally Ride on the stage that day turned a possibility into a reality--a reality that could include me." Coleman recounts some of the prejudice she faced, but overall, she gives her fellow astronauts high marks. She joined the program in 1992, and she delivers vivid accounts of flying on the space shuttle. However, her greatest thrill was her time on the ISS. Chosen in 2007, she describes three years of intense practice, study, and simulation, during which she traveled the world before the mission itself. Coleman writes well, and readers will learn a lot about the technical details of spaceflight as well as the daily life, duties, and interactions of a career astronaut. Since she began her career, plenty has changed; the newer astronaut classes are 50% women. As always, however, the job requires top-level intelligence, fierce ambition, scientific and technical aptitude, a generous tolerance of human foibles, and physical and mental fortitude. "Throughout my career, navigating around my smaller size in the EVA suit required imagination, supreme negotiating skills, a sense of humor, and showing up cheerfully, even to meetings where I wasn't invited," she writes. Regardless, "blaming the equipment was not an option." An appealing account of a unique life that will encourage readers aspiring to a life in space.

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    • Booklist

      June 20, 2024
      Scientist, pilot, and former astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel, Coleman shares her early life and what led her to NASA and the International Space Station (ISS). She writes vividly about how, in 1969, she almost missed Neil Armstrong's first steps on the Moon because of ""space is for boys"" cultural norms and how she noticed then that all the astronauts were white men. Later she received inspiration and ""permission"" from Sally Ride to pursue space exploration. Coleman describes her demanding journey from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to how surreal it felt when NASA selected her for the ISS mission to the breathtaking moment of donning the blue flight suit, recounting the punishing training process and her uncertainty countered by her determination. Looking to the larger picture, Coleman highlights the importance of having a broad support system, acknowledging vulnerabilities, and building deeply trusted friendships and professional bonds, while emphasizing counseling (particularly regarding the emotional preparation for the isolation of living aboard the ISS), and the impact of navigating cultural differences.

      COPYRIGHT(2024) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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