Go For Orbit

There are so many astronaut memoirs published by major publishers, it strikes me as odd that this memoir is self-published.

I thought this was an interesting memoir, although it could have used more editing (typos and grammatical mistakes were relatively infrequent but jarring). What struck me was the lack of "Right Stuff" types of content that I usually read in astronaut memoirs. [Riding Rockets], in particular, was by an astronaut in the same class who made applying for the astronaut corps to be a really difficult thing, which I have always been under the impression that it is. By reading Dr. Seddon's book, becoming an astronaut was practically an accidental fluke. Is this just the impostor syndrome? I don't know. This memoir also made show more being an astronaut sound like a relatively straightforward (albeit sometimes stressful) 9-5 job. It did not seem like the challenge I would expect from being an astronaut in the shuttle program.

While this book brought up interesting aspects of working for NASA in the late 1970s to early 1990s, I found that too much emphasis was put on the author's husband's flights, and less on the author's life and experiences. I also really wonder what the author did after leaving NASA, as the book essentially ends after STS-58. show less