Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery.

KELLY, Scott with Margaret Lazarus Dean. [Chip Kidd].

Item Number: 125193

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

First edition of the famed astronaut’s stunning memoir. Octavo, original cloth, with 24 pages of full-color photographs. Signed by Scott Kelly on a bookplate. Additionally signed three times by dust jacket illustrator Chip Kidd on the front panel of the dust jacket, front free endpaper, and rear flap of the dust jacket. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.

Endurance details Kelly's life, as well as that of his twin brother Mark, as they became naval aviators and test pilots, and were both selected for NASA Astronaut Group 16. Kelly recounts his four spaceflights, with an emphasis on the ISS year long mission, in which he participated. The book's title was inspired by Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, a 1959 book which detailed the epic efforts of Ernest Shackleton and his crew to survive after their exploratory ship the Endurance became trapped and was crushed by Antarctic sea ice in 1915. During his year aboard the Space Station, Kelly would occasionally thumb through the account of his predecessor explorer's harrowing story to try and put his own mission's inevitable difficulties in perspective.