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August 24th, 2026
A Heart for Space: An Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible by Eiman Jahangir; Forefront Books; August 2026; 224 pages (Hardcover); $26.00.
In August of 2024, the author of this insightful and inspiring book flew aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket.
“People often assume that achieving a dream means following a straight line,” explains Jahangir. “My experience taught me the opposite. Dreams evolve. Doors close. New opportunities appear. The key is staying in motion long enough to recognize them.”
A Heart for Space is just that, a compassionate account of Jahangir’s dedication to travel spaceward.
On August 29, 2024, he became the first Iranian American man to travel to space and the first commercial physician astronaut. He is a professor of medicine and radiology in Nashville, Tennessee, where he serves as a leading cardiologist. Jahangir has authored more than fifty peer-reviewed publications and book chapters advancing the understanding of heart health.
This discerning and personal story is told in eight chapters, from Iran with love, why you need a flexible mindset to get ahead, to one moment can change everything and the author’s view from space. Jahangir notes the powerful impact of the “Overview Effect,” the psychological shift manifested in many space travelers when they view our home planet from space.
Image credit: Blue Origin/Eiman Jahangir
Vaulting to space via New Shepard, Jahangir recounts his crossing of the Karman Line, the internationally accepted border of space. “That four-year-old boy who started dreaming of space after setting foot in America was now looking down at the Earth from space,” he writes. The ten minute and eight second sojourn gave him clarity of purpose, enough rocket oomph and trajectory for Jahangir’s to write “8 steps to Chasing Your Dreams.”
Not only does the author motivate the reader to enjoy the ride of life. Within the book, there are appealing interviews he’s done with modern space pioneers, like current NASA administrator Jared Isaacman; Nicole Stott; Sian Proctor; Kellie Gerardi; Hayley Arceneaux; Eytan Stibbe; Chris Huie; and Drew Gaffney.
Jahangir has captured their candid reflections on risk, identity, leadership, and perseverance to shed light on what it takes to fulfill goals and ambitions, such as reaching orbit literally and figuratively.
For more information on this book, go to:
https://www.forefrontbooks.com/book/a-heart-for-space/
Also, visit his informative website at:
https://www.eimanjahangir.com/
Image credit: Eiman Jahangir
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