Author Talk: Leroy Chiao on 'Dinner with an Astronaut'

Leroy Chiao is coming to the Asia Society Texas Center on Sunday, November 15, for a talk about his book, Dinner with an Astronaut: Serving Space Stories: Past, Present and Future. If you've ever wondered what it's actually like to live and work in orbit, this is your chance to hear it from someone who's been there.

Chiao isn't just an author; he's a former NASA astronaut whose career spanned four space missions. He flew on the Space Shuttle, the Soyuz spacecraft, and the International Space Station, where he also served as commander. That's a lot of ground—and orbit—to cover, and Dinner with an Astronaut draws on that experience. The talk centers on the book, so you'll get the stories from the page told by the man who lived them.

It's a rare thing to have someone with that kind of flight history sitting down in a room in Houston to talk through it. Between the Shuttle, the Soyuz, and the ISS, he's seen a good chunk of how we've lived and worked in space over the last few decades, and the book pulls from that whole stretch. If you've got a thing for space flight, this is a straightforward way to get some first-hand accounts.

The talk runs from 2 PM to 3 PM on Sunday, November 15, at the Asia Society Texas Center in Houston. Tickets are $10 or more.