Astronaut Training Skills Applied to Daily Life
Astronaut Chris Hadfield brings space lessons down to Earth
We take the pull of gravity for granted, much like breathing air. Every so often, we consider how it’s just an accepted part of our existence here on planet Earth — breathable air and gravity’s constant pull.
Wouldn’t it be a blast to float around in zero gravity? An astronaut knows what it’s like.
Have you ever thought about what life is like for an astronaut?
What’s their motivation to do it?
What is the right stuff it takes?
What kind of skills and training are required?
Can anybody do it with the proper training, or are only extraordinary people able to make the cut?
The Right Stuff
The life of an astronaut sounds adventurous and thrilling to young kids as they might imagine spending much of the time whipping around the outer atmosphere in a spaceship, dodging meteors, and shifting into hyper-thrust speed.
It’s probably the same thinking that prompted many young students to study archaeology a few decades ago. Thinking, like Indiana Jones, they’d spend their days globe-hopping, dodging booby-traps in ancient temples, and…
