Explore the Great Unknown: A Journey Through Space Chronicles

Buyer: Good book to ponder. Informative but light.

United Kingdom on Jul 06, 2022

c wilson: good read written before Neil became this generations Bill Nye

Canada on Jan 17, 2019

Sumithra: A great book to read .

India on Dec 11, 2018

A CALERO ASCACIBAR: Un buen libro de un autor que siempre resulta fácil de leer. En inglés porque así puedo tener directamente la versión del autor.

Spain on Jan 15, 2018

Cliente de Amazon: Neil explicando el universo como solo él sabe. Si conocer sobre el universo es lo tuyo. No puedes perder este libro

Mexico on Mar 07, 2017

Wingspinner: So much of it rings as so true but he nearly caused me to stop reading when he went on a triade about the planting of the U.S. Flag on the moon and how it should have been the UN flag instead and claiming the U.S. " went back to its imperialist roots". For someone so knowledgable he is so ignorant of the facts. NASA debated long and hard about planing the Flag because the U.S. Did NOT claim the moon as its property but at the same time the U.S. and its Tax payers alone paid for the program in its entirety and itwas the product of their efforts alone. NASA thought it only right that they plant the U.S. Flag to lay claim to WHO did it just as Mr. Tyson puts his name on his books rather than the entire scientific community. . At the same time he criticizes US motivations as being solely and merely an extension of the Cold War and nothing else (a major factor for sure but not exclusively) when he should be praising US for peacefully competing with the USSR via healthy, non-military means and sharing the peaceful technology developed with the entire world for the taking fueling world economic and technology growth for the following 40+ years. He does acknowledge the latter but never...

United States on Nov 24, 2014

David Meerman Scott: I'm a big Neil deGrasse Tyson fanboy.

Partly that's because I'm an Apollo moon mission geek and collect artifacts from the program. (Pretty geeky, right?)

But mostly, I'm a fan because Dr. Tyson is such an awesome communicator. When I read his work or watch him on television, I always take away something that I can apply to my own work as a communicator and marketing strategist.

His bio says Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist and the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. Dr. Tyson is so good at talking and writing about the cosmos and why it is important for us to have an understanding of the wider world in which we live.

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier - is a collection of essays and speech transcripts around the theme of space exploration and how America has not done much to inspire people in the past 40 years outside of some cool robotic missions and the Hubble telescope.

I read Space Chronicles in three sittings because it is that good.

In the book, he talks about how America boldly embarked on the most audacious scientific endeavor in history by sending humans to the moon. However after 9 lunar...

United States on Mar 07, 2012

Jacopo: On October 4, 1957, the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched into orbit. This technological first marked the beginning of a new era of competition between the former Soviet Union and the United States. While on the surface the Space Race might have appeared to be spurred on by man's desire for knowledge and exploration, in truth, the only thing that made man's footprints on the Moon possible was the looming Cold War and aspiration to assert technological dominance over each other. Adjusted for inflation, the Apollo program today would cost over 200 billion dollars, twenty times the yearly budget of NASA. It is unlikely any of us alive today will ever see man step foot on the Moon or another planetary surface, or see the equivalent of what millions of people witnessed on July 20, 1969 when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. The overwhelming costs, technological hurdles, and political backdrop are what make the Space Race such a fascinating subject, and it would be hard to find someone who is so passionate about it or conveys these ideas better than astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Like his last novel  Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries , Space...

United States on Feb 20, 2012