Frommer's The Moon: A Guide for First-Time Visitors (Frommer Other)

Rating:
Summary: Entertaining but with errors
Review: This was just too cute to pass up, and it is a good, entertaining overview of some of the aspects of space travel and what would be involved in a tourist trip to the moon. However, there are some appalling factual errors in here. In particular, he seems to have a grudge against the space shuttle and comes out with some blatant untruths about it: not all of the shuttle's heat-resistant tiles need to be replaced after a mission, only a few do; and the shuttle does in fact have a braking parachute though he says it doesn't. He also indicates that total solar eclipses only happen about once every 150 years when the actual figure is about 1.5 years, a factor of 100 error.

If you can take it with a grain of salt, though, the text and cartoons (by the author) are entertaining, and it's well illustrated with space photos, though unfortunately the geared-for-portability size of the book (4.5"x7.5") scarcely does them justice. So read it for fun and a little bit of education but don't believe all of it.