Written by an astronaut who was in space for five months, It’s A Question Of Space is certainly written by an expert in all things astro, and it shows in the answers to these serious to not so serious questions in this book.

There’s some really interesting questions that need to be answered about travelling in space and Anderson certainly answers these brilliantly. Keeping them human but also informative he shares his own personal experience of space travel in this book but also gives insights in how it all works.

A really great book for a kid, especially doing a school project as it answers everything you will ever need to know about space and what it takes to be an astronaut.

Disappointed in this book. The astronaut didn’t seem interested in answering the questions, only plugging his book.

I really love reading about space, about astronauts, about their life, about their adventures, so I was definitely looking forward to reading this book about an American astronaut. Sadly, it was just way boring and at times I wonder if this would really be for the YA/Teen age or if it would be better suited for the older audience.

I also had expected a bit of other things between the questions (like fun facts, or something about the space station, or well, anything actually), but instead it is just continually questions/answers with a few sporadically added photographs.

So not recommended.

Anderson's style of writing and his ego got in the way of this book totally for me. While it is important for astronauts to say that they can answer many questions from their own perspective this surely doesn't have to be mentioned in every other line. Anderson's false modesty and self flagellation also annoyed me. There are far better astronaut biographies and astronaut q&a books out there, there really was a reason why he was rejected from NASA so many times and I wonder if they regret actually giving him a place on the astronaut corps

Clayton Conrad Anderson is a retired NASA astronaut. He previously wrote The Ordinary Spaceman: From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut

In this book, Anderson answers questions that were asked on Quora. The questions are about the life of an astronaut, the International Space Station, space walks and aliens. Some of the questions I always asked myself (for example, is it difficult to get dressed in space?).

The answers Anderson gives in his book are easy to read and understand, nothing too technical. He writes from his own personal perspective. Some questions are answered with a serious tone, other answers have more humor ('I was Superman every day!').

This book gave me a nice insight in the life of Anderson as an astronaut. I would recommend this book to everyone who loves space or who dreams about being an astronaut.

This book very much reminded me of Tim Peake's Ask an Astronaut which I read at the beginning of the year. It was a book that consited of loads of questions which people had sent in; from the more serious to the downright silly!
As someone who is really interested in space I found this a really interesting read. I read this book so quickly and kept saying to myself that I would read 'just one more question'.
The only thing that stops me giving 5 stars is that some parts are a little repetitive, for example someone asks if he swallows toothpaste in space and he answers that yes he does, although this has already been spoken about earlier in the book when someone asked what his washing and getting ready routine was like.
Thanks to Netgalley for providing me with a free e-copy in return for an honest review.