An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything runs 9 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Chris Hadfield (about 6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 18 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 9 hours, it runs longer than 54% of the 2,732 History & Culture audiobooks in our catalog.
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517 History & Culture audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything is an audiobook by Chris Hadfield: a 9-hour unabridged recording, read by Chris Hadfield, released October 29, 2013, on the History & Culture and Astronomy & Physics shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Chris Hadfield
- Released
- October 29, 2013
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- History & Culture, Astronomy & Physics, Self-Development
- ISBN
- 9781478978961
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything as an audiobook?
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything runs 9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6 hours.
Is An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything?
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything is narrated by Chris Hadfield.