Space Chronicles Facing the Ultimate Frontier

If you like hearing Neil DeGrasse Tyson's voice wax poetic about space and our species' place in it, this is a great read even if it is now somewhat dated information. It's a collection of speeches, essays, articles, and interviews mostly from the Obama era of the US space program. It suffers a little from the repetition I often find in essay collections which were meant to be taken individually as opposed to read through all at once, but that repetition also kind of drives home Tyson's thesis that we as Americans and as humans have an obligation to keep exploring space, and it provides some great evidence if you are having a conversation with someone who says, “Why are we wasting billions of dollars on space when we have enough problems here on Earth?”