Customer Reviews

A fascinating and very interesting read - By: Tony, 30 Jul 2008
A fascinating book writtenin a style that an interested layman can understand. Despite having lived through, & been interested in, all the space exploration since Sputnik, I hadn't appreciated all that is involved.

Dr Rogers is to be congratulated for covering a complex topicin a straightforward way without recourse to too much & hard-to-understand science. Indeed I occasionally found the book prompted further questionsin my mind which I then enjoyed researching.

The author also covered relevant astronomy topics which I found very useful. One day perhaps, humans will set foot on another planetin the solar system & some of the problems that such a mission would have to face are covered well.

Clearly the author has a passion for space & astronomy, as well as the ability to put things overin an essentially simply way.

Allin all I'd can thoroughly recommend the book.