EL ASTRONAUTA QUE PINTÓ EL ESPACIO

The book discusses writers who have been considered crazy and the romantic aspect attributed to mental illness when linked to the creative realm, addressing the fundamental question: can people who truly lose their minds write meaningful things? Neil Armstrong was a brilliant and reserved engineer who preferred technical data to press conferences. Buzz Aldrin fought his personal demons with the same determination he put into stepping onto the moon. Alan Bean left NASA to paint his space memories with real dust from the satellite embedded in his oil paintings. Sixty years after Laika paved the way to the stars, the conquest of space remains the most daring adventure of our species. But far from the official rhetoric, what lies behind the helmets and space suits? What are the men and women who have turned space exploration into their personal biography really like? Enrique José Díaz León offers us a sample of space humanities where heroes reveal their fragilities: Valentina Tereshkova, who had to convince flight technicians that there was a fatal error in their calculations while orbiting alone in space; Chris Hadfield, who overcame his pathological fear of darkness to command the International Space Station; and Miguel López-Alegría, who returned to the cosmos at the age of 65, proving that dreams never expire. Between the first mammals launched into the void and the millionaires who today buy fifteen-minute experiences in orbit, Díaz León reveals that the true history of space is not found in technical manuals but in seemingly insignificant details: the pen that saved a mission, the wasabi geyser that splattered the space station, the saxophone that never played among the stars...