Book · recommended on 2 episodes
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
Scott Kelly
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Scott Kelly
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This book by Scott Kelly has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Ariel Ekblaw, Scott Kelly. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-11-09 and the most recent from 2022-03-23. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“scott kelly wrote this amazing book after he spent a year in space and he's a twin it's absolutely fantastic”— Ariel Ekblaw
The guest here is Ariel Ekblaw: Founder and director of the MIT Space Exploration Initiative and co-founder of the Aurelia Institute. Her PhD pioneered TESSERAE, tiles that autonomously self-assemble into large space structures in orbit. MIT's Ariel Ekblaw on self-assembling space megastructures, floating space cities, and making life beyond Earth actually worth living.
“partly where the name of my book endurance comes from because that book about ernest shackleton and his voyage with his crew of endurance”— Scott Kelly
The guest here is Scott Kelly: Former U.S. Navy fighter and test pilot, engineer, and retired NASA astronaut who commanded the International Space Station and flew the year-long mission, setting the American record for accumulated days in space. Author of Endurance and creator of the audio course Go for Launch. Astronaut Scott Kelly on decision-making under pressure, learning to study, embracing failure, scientific literacy, and lessons from 500+ days in space.
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