Chris Hadfield

I've done all those things.

But writing fiction, suddenly you can get into just everybody's spontaneous gut reaction.

And you can look at the same event from multiple different characters within your story.

So then you can really bring it to life for the reader.

And I took it as a big challenge, just like learning to be an F-18 pilot or learning to command a spaceship.

What is the goal?

How do you learn from the experts of how to do this thing?

And then how do you develop your own skill set so that maybe you can do it to the limit of your own ability?

And I'm really proud to say my newest book, Final Orbit, which is the third in my thriller fiction series, it's the number one national bestseller right now.

Number one of all the books.

It's like, that sounds crazy, but that's the truth.

So it's great that other people are looking forward to

to the adventure and to the ideas as much as I look forward to writing them.

I think the next book I'm going to write will be a young adult version based on the purposes of An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth.

I mean, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth is how to lead a better life.

I pretended it was a biography.

But if you read it, then you'll realize it is exactly what the title says, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth.

And it's been used...

By so many surprises, it's been in almost 30 languages.

Sam Houston State used it to formulate the fundamental curriculum for first year students, compulsory reading.