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.