What it’s like to stand at the threshold to space

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I took another sleeping pill to get to sleep that night. I was that nervous. I knew that the next day was my day. It was going to hap­pen. I was going to go out in that space suit and I was going to have to perform. I’d be doing it under a microscope, too. Everything you do out there is being recorded by helmet camera. Everybody’s watching. Anything goes wrong, and everybody knows. I had this incredible anticipation. Not like Christmas morning; more like the first day of school, where you’re excited by the new possibilities but also terrified about making friends and not screwing up.

Just from the excerpt, I want to read this book.