Reaching for the Stars: The Inspiring Story of a Migrant Farmworker Turned Astronaut

The book that inspired the new film A Million Miles Away.

Born into a family of migrant workers, toiling in the fields by the age of six, Jose M. Hernàndez dreamed of traveling through the night skies…

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