Book Launch and Author Talk
October 13th
6:30-7:30 pm
Join us for an evening with Leslie Young, co-author, with her father, of Around and Around: Recollections of a NASA Bioengineer from the Bronx.
Before Larry Young became a backup astronaut for NASA’s Space Shuttle, he was just a Jewish kid from the Bronx. In an easy, conversational style, Young tells the stories of how his unique mixture of play and hard work (and luck!) brought him from a childhood in New York City in the 1930s to MIT in the 1950s and 60s, and onward to the founding the new field of bioengineering and a career studying human factors in space.
Around and Around spans his remarkable life, from family and sports to his research on how astronauts adapt to weightlessness and his astronaut training in Houston, to reflections on continuing play and hard work at any age. Through it all, Young shows his amazement and gratitude for a life well lived, through the humor and lightness with which he describes even the weightiest subjects.
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