A wonderful way to get a sense of where the bleeding edge of space travel is/is going. It appears that the author has really done his homework, as I suspected when I decided to hear an audio version of the book. As an added bonus, it was actually a really good story! It captured the likely cast of characters that would actually go out into deep space. Best of all, it had a fun coda, contrasting, main characters, small minded, Midwestern, family, who couldn’t appreciate, or even believe his exploits.