Born in the mid 50's, this book arrived with my Young Readers collection of Dr. Seuss and became an all time favorite. At a time when there were no female astronauts, it brought hope to a little girl with BIG space dreams.

This book related the wonderful concepts of space travel so well that I desired the experience of anti gravity badly enough to have dreams about it. It was easy to understand how and why we would one day reach the moon, albeit slightly skewed by our inexperience in the field.

Even though this book is outdated, it is a good example of our roots in space travel... just as current books will hopefully become in the future. I considered it such a gem, that I salvaged it after my nieces grew up and no longer read the Young Readers collection I passed on to them. My only regret is in not saving the entire set... each book anxiously awaited in the mail each month so long ago were the Harry Potter series of their time. These books are my touchstone to a reading world that started at age 4 ... and will continue until my last day on earth. Unfortunately, I never did go to the moon!

This is an "impressionable" book of colossal proportions. The subject matter absolutely fascinated, inspired, challenged, and motivated a generation of American "rocket scientists" that would eventually come to operate the Space Shuttle and the Space Station. I am one of those. Born in 1960, I would end up participating in a work-study program with NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, earn an Aerospace Engineering degree, and operate the Space Shuttle--on the ground, that is! Of course, I am sure it stimulated many others that chose different fields of endeavor.

As a young "Cat In The Hat" reader I was enormously fascinated with this book. Yes, this book was distributed by mail to many young readers, right along with "Green Eggs and Ham." What a time in history to begin learning. Imagine training to read with the imagination of Dr. Suess, to experience the creativity of Walt Disney, and be exposed to a vision of space travel by Wernher von Braun and his followers--all while the Mercury, Gemini and Saturn/Apollo programs hit the headlines and the TV screens!

With over forty years having passed, I suggest reading it again-or for the first time. On the one hand, you will find that much is fulfilled. Alas, on the other hand, the fact that the title is addressed to "YOU" should cause us all to reflect on the promises one generation makes to another...and inspire us all to action once again. This time to enable all those who would like to Go To The Moon!

I remember this book well, although not perfectly, from thirty years ago. I thought back to it occasionally, and a few things cleared up.

Even with an illustration of it, I missunderstood the description of the mooncar going through the crater. For some reason, I imagined the car falling down a deep hole, driving across the bottom, and floating back up the other side.

The illustrator did get one thing wrong: The text described tiny rockets firing to turn the spaceship. The picture showed the spaceship going around in a loop, when in reality, it continued going straight in its path, just rotating to point the tail toward the moon.

When reading it, I always wondered how we got back to Earth. It seemed to me a whole lot more dangerous.