Astronaut Selection Test Book: Do You Have What it Takes for Space?

This book features 100 real astronaut tests and exercises from the European Space Agency’s highly rigorous selection process, ranging from easy to fiendishly hard, Includes puzzles and tests on:

· visual perception and logic
· mental arithmetic and concentration
· psychological readiness
· teamwork and leadership
· survival, physical and medical skills
· foreign languages (every astronaut has to know Russian!)

This richly-illustrated book draws on Tim Peake's own experience of applying to be an astronaut in 2008, when he and five others were chosen – out of over 8,000 applications!

Paberback, 256 pages