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400 pages, Hardcover
First published October 4, 2018
‘In over six months in space I hadn’t had a single noteworthy dream - or at least none that I remembered.’
‘Happiness always takes me by surprise, sneaking in unexpectedly, almost inexplicably. I think it must grow inside, slowly and quietly, until some small detail makes it spill over and all at once it saturates your body and soul. Or maybe it’s always there under your skin, waiting for you to make room for it … The full moon came out, haloed in silver - and suddenly I was happy.’
‘Our training as astronauts must transform the exceptional into the ordinary, rendering familiar experiences that are anything but.’
‘“Oh my god!” I exclaimed, and Anton immediately orders me to be quiet. He’s right, of course. The radio transmitter is on, and on Earth they cannot know that everything is fine, that there isn’t some problem.’
‘I hope that women and men of such genius will soon voyage into space, so that when I read them, I can exclaim, “But this is what I have always felt and known and desired!”’