"When in 1972 my mum obtained photographs and other memorabilia straight from NASA because her four-year-old son was fascinated by the Moon, we didn't know that I would be endorsing this book. But here I am: the Eagle has landed. As Sally Ashton tells the reader in luminous, engaging prose, anyone who has felt a tide or looked into the sky has been to the Moon. It's magical and it's real. This is a wonderful book about all that."-- Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair of English at Rice University. " Going to the Moon looks bravely and intimately at the ironies of our contemporary relationship to Earth's only satellite. Sally Ashton has an uncommon story to tell about her own relationship to the moon, even as her lyrical prose zooms in on a surpassingly universal human experience: gazing up at that 'crisp circumference' in the sky we all share.

"-- Erika Howsare, author of , The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors.