Tom Jones: Sky Walking

Sky Walking is a biography written by former NASA astronaut Tom Jones. In Sky Walking, Jones first provides in great detail applying and becoming an astronaut, and then his career at NASA. Most of the book is spent going into great detail about the shuttle missions Jones took part in. STS-59 and STS-68 were both missions where astronauts scanned the earth and provided in depth photos of the earth. STS-80 concerned experiments with satellites and a botched space walk Jones was involved in because he could not open up the hatch. To his relief the ground crew could not. STS-98 consisted of Jones and Robert Curbeam going on a few space walks to install the Destiny module to the fledgling Space Station. There is an imax movie that features this particular space mission.

Other interesting things that Jones discusses is astronaut John Young, Russia's involvement in the ISS, The Culumbia accident, family life, meeting George W. Bush in the Oval Office (with blue flight suits) and life in Houston.

The only difficulty I had with this book was when he described the ISS (assembling it). I wish there was some type of diagram that was included in the book, just as there was a key of the various acronyms that were used.