How I read this: Free ebook copy received through Edelweiss

I really loved this book. It's full of little stories and facts, interesting quotes and some really amazing, breathtaking photos. Incredibly high quality, close up photos of instruments and other things the astronauts saw and took pictures of during the trips. We may be able to take photos whenever we want now, but they've got nothing on these. Quantity isn't always better than quality - and these are truly stunning.

I can't say exactly what it is about the photos in this book, but they're so... Real. So deep. They're very good. The view of the Earth in some of them is simply breathtaking, and you'll even find one of the astronauts quoted, saying that it was perhaps seeing these kinds of views what kicked the nature preservation programs into gear - and it easily convinces me that it might have been. It's profound, looking at the Earth from space, and even stranger to see a man in front of it. Seeing these photos, it's also really easy to imagine how all those now iconic movies about space came to be (Space Oddysey: 2001, Star Wars and many others). They concentrate on these images, and it seems that at the time, humanity was really captivated by such views, and the images the astronauts brought back had an immense cultural impact.

What I also loved is that it's not only about the first trip to the moon. There's a lot of stuff about the rest of the trips, which are often overlooked or forgotten. Then it also had some stories from the time of the Space shuttles and the Hubble launch, or other space station programs.

I thank the publisher for giving me a free ebook copy of the book through Edelweiss in exchange for my honest review. This has not affected my opinion.

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