By Mike Massimino
5 stars
Mike Massimino decided he wanted to be an astronaut after watching the first moon landing. Like many boys and girls of the age, he was mesmerized by the brave men who dared to walk where no one else had ever ventured. Unlike other boys his age, he actually became an astronaut traveling in space twice to fix the Hubble Telescope, spacewalking 350 miles above Earth. The first third of this book reads like a pretty run of the mill memoir with many stories about hard work and persistence. It is when Massimino finally makes it into space that this book becomes something really incredible. I felt chills reading about his experiences seeing Earth from that perspective and the insights that he gained the moment that he actually saw how Earth fits into the whole of the universe. This is the story of a genuinely nice man who worked hard, overcame obstacles, relentlessly pursued his passion and got to experience something that almost no one else in the world gets the chance to experience. I'm not sure this is the most eloquently written memoir, but it doesn't matter. Read it to be inspired, to feel better about our planet and be reminded how small we all are in the universe. I received this book from the Blogging for Books program in exchange for an honest review.
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