The Coolest Job in the Universe

Traveling more than seventeen thousand miles per hour in constant orbit around Earth, astronauts live and work aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Despite the hostile environment of space, the ISS has suitable living conditions for its workers. Astronauts breathe clean air, eat shrimp cocktail, exercise daily, and take out the trash-in zero gravity, of course. Floating around the ISS, the astronauts have important jobs, conducting experiments and completing research projects. Author Henry M. Holden explores the base camp to the universe from its design and construction to the amazing astronauts who work there.