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SHARING SPACE

Cady Coleman

An Astronaut’s Guide to Mission, Wonder, and Making Change

One of America's few female astronauts reveals the wisdom that helped her overcome the barriers of others' expectationsand learn to work on a team both in close quarters and remotely.

In 2010, the day after her fiftieth birthdayand despite having faced feedback for years that she was not astronaut materialCady Coleman boarded a rocket and blasted off into space for her third NASA mission, the only woman on her six-person crew. She may have been an "unexpected" astronaut, but her determination and her experiences give her a unique perspective on life here on Earth. In SHARING SPACE, Cady shares counterintuitive insights integral to her success, such as how to leverage insecurities to beat expectations, how to know when to adapt and when to press for change, and how to be the glue that holds a disparate team together. Illustrated with stories from her life and training, from meteorite hunting in Antarctica to the two weeks she spent living in an underwater habitat to the magic of spending six months living and working in zero gravity, this book will inspire anyone eager to escape a box in which they have been (unfairly) placed or develop the confidence to succeed, even when they're not an obvious "fit." Catherine Coleman is a chemist, an engineer, a former United States Air Force colonel, and a retired NASA astronaut. She is also now a highly regarded media adviser and on-air expert, known for her STEM/STEAM advocacy. Most recently Coleman co-anchored Netflix and Time's livestream coverage of the SpaceX launch of four civilians into space (she had helped coach them) and, as a regular ABC contributor, co-anchored its special reports covering the SpaceX launches and the Perseverance Mars rover landing.

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Book Published 2024-07-02 by Penguin Life

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Cady shares extraordinary wisdom from an extraordinary life.

Sharing Space is a wise, personal, and inspiring story about how to live a good and purposeful life. Coleman interweaves her narrative of becoming an astronaut and working in space with lessons learned about teamwork, family, confidence in the face of setbacks, courage, and pushing mental and physical limits in service of a mission larger than yourself. Her accomplishments are impressive, but what really shines through is her humanity especially her commitment to breaking down barriers and using her own position and perspective to expand opportunities for others to achieve their own dreams. Before I read this book, I already wanted to be an astronaut. After reading it, I want to be a better person.

Cady does a marvelous job of sharing the joys, worries and realities of spaceflight - and the complex road to get there. For anyone who has felt life's obstacles are insurmountable, Cady's path and ideas will help show the way.

Cady Coleman reveals not just the extraordinary thrill of living and working in space but shares practical and inspiring advice on how to overturn other's expectations to succeed. By showing how she stayed positive despite the obstacles to earning her spot as an astronaut and sharing the tools she's learned about team building and how and when to speak up for change, her story is a unique roadmap for leaders everywhere.

Astronaut Cady Coleman a brave, thoughtful, funny person has had more extraordinary experiences than most of us could in three lifetimes. In this delightfully entertaining book she tells her fascinating story, and shares the priceless wisdom she's gained along the way.