The Astronaut Maker: How One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation by Michael Cassutt
A biography of NASA administrator George Abbey covering his career at NASA and influence he had over manned spaceflight. 4/5
The Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom by David J. Helfand
How isotopes are used to date events from the recent to distant past and find out other things like the atmosphere’s composition millions of years ago. Worth reading 3/5
My Scoring System
- 5/5 = Brilliant, top 5 book of the year
- 4/5 = Above average, strongly recommend
- 3/5 = Average. in the middle 70% of books I read
- 2/5 = Disappointing
- 1/5 = Did not like at all
