Moon shot : a NASA astronaut's guide to achieving the impossible

Moon shot A NASA astronaut's guide to achieving the impossible

Mike Massimino, 1962-

Book - 2023

"When you think of a NASA astronaut, the image that probably comes to mind is one of the All-American hero: athletic, charismatic, ready to take on the stars. But former NASA astronaut turned business speaker and bestselling author Mike Massimino was pretty much the opposite. He was the underdog, one of the weakest swimmers during NASA training and a "gangly, scrawny, working-class kid from Long Island with bad eyesight and a fear of heights." Still, after working hard and working smart, Massimino had a successful career as an astronaut. Now, he uses his experience to bring readers valuable, actionable, and entertaining advice for how to get back up and make possible the seemingly impossible--now on Earth. Moonshot shares Mas...simino's hard-earned lessons and how to apply them in work and life. Using humor and a unique storytelling ability, he inspires readers to identify the passion in their work, use teamwork and innovation to solve problems, provide leadership in the face of adversity, and never give up when pursuing a goal. Written with characteristic wit and a big heart, Mike operates as our mission control to navigate us as we achieve our own personal and professional moonshots. Like Admiral McRaven's Make Your Bed and Voss's Never Split the Difference brought military and hostage negotiation lessons to civilian life, Moonshot distills stories and insights from NASA into an accessible, compact, actionable guide of how to get the little things right to accomplish our big goals"--

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Subjects
Motivation (Psychology)
Conduct of life.
ethics (philosophical concept)
PSYCHOLOGY / General.
Conduct of life
Self-help publications.
Genres
Self-help publications
Published
New York, NY : Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books 2023.
Language
English
Main Author
Mike Massimino, 1962- (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
xi, 204 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9780306832642
9780306832659
  • One in a million is not zero
  • No one leaves the pool until everyone passes the test
  • Speak up
  • Trust your training, trust your gear, and trust your team
  • You can always make it worse
  • The first rule of leadership
  • Houston, we have a problem
  • The thirty-second rule
  • Be amazed
  • Know when to pivot.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Former astronaut Massimino (Spaceman) mines his career for an upbeat manual on becoming "whatever want to be." Recalling how he overcame his subpar eyesight to get accepted into NASA's astronaut program in 1996 (he did eye exercises for months until he passed the vision test), Massimino asserts that the "only way to make a task truly impossible is to not try or give up in the face of adversity," and that even pursuing dreams that don't pan out can confer new skills or insights. Teamwork gets covered at length, too, as the author describes how NASA's collaborative spirit ("Whatever your technical job description, you were part of that team getting people to space") taught him to celebrate each team member's unique strengths and take collective responsibility when mistakes occur. Massimino's behind-the-scenes peeks into NASA operations and reverent descriptions of gazing at the "blue marble" of Earth from space breathe new life into his commonsense advice, though he has a tendency to lean on platitudes ("Successful people are not those who never failed. Successful people are those who never let failure stop them"). Still, this is a solid guide for readers chasing big ambitions. (Dec.)

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