A review by eandrews80
Spaceman by Mike Massimino

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.25

I dare you to read this and NOT fall in love with Mike Massimino and the entire space program!  What an inspiring, uplifting, and fascinating book.  Massimino's personal story is great; I loved hearing about the innumerable obstacles he overcame to realize his dream and become an astronaut. But his description of NASA -- its characters, culture, dedication to science and exploration -- is equally wonderful, as are his first-hand accounts of going to space (!) to spacewalk (!!) in order to fix the Hubble telescope (!!!) two separate times (?!).  He's a gifted storyteller and I can see why he ended up doing so much PR for the agency.  This made me want to learn about more recent NASA history, after the shuttle program ended.