The Orbital Perspective

INDEX

Abbey, George, 13–14, 16

“Act as if.” See “Fake it till you make it” attitude

Africa, 131

Airbnb, 153–154

Anderson, Michael, 20

Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, 13–14, 31, 42

Atlantis. See Space Shuttle Atlantis

Bangladesh, 52

Barratt, Mike, 39

background, 23–25

ISS and, 41–43

Russia, Russians, and, 24–27, 30, 31, 36, 37, 41

Beck, Beth, xiii

Big picture perspective

Chilean mine rescue and, 100–102

orbital perspective and, 133, 136, 167

worm’s eye view and, 80, 81, 112–113, 119–121, 167

Biosphère Environmental Museum, 163

Bolden, Charlie, 40, 98–99

Borisenko, Andrei, photo

Botvinko, Alexander, 44

Brezhnev, Leonid, 13

Brown, David, 20

Brugh, Willow, 141–143, 160, 164

Budarin, Nikolai, 19

Burbank, Dan, photo

Bureaucratic inertia, 119–121

Bush, George ...