Book Review: Into the Void
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Susan Raizer Title: Into the Void: Adventures of the Spacewalkers Author: John Youskauskas and Melvin Croft
2017
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NASA photo, Feb. 1974: “Scientist-astronaut Edward G. Gibson, science pilot for the Skylab 4 mission, demonstrates the effects of zero-gravity as he sails through airlock
Image: SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage landing at Landing Zone-1 after boosting CRS-13 toward the ISS. Credit: NASA. The National Space Society (NSS) congratulates SpaceX
Square-jawed Dr. Ed Gibson gets ready to upset some space journalists, NASA photo, Sept. 10, 1973: “Scientist-astronaut Edward G. Gibson, science pilot for the third
This year, the space community lost many notables, including Gene Cernan, Dick Gordon, and Paul Weitz (pictured aboard Skylab). NASA photo, June 1973: “Astronaut Paul
The CubeSat Structures Competition invites students from around the world to help advance the state-of-the-art of new space technology by designing new CubeSat structures. Winning
Image: New Shepard capsule after successful landing showing large windows with “Mannequin Skywalker” visible. Credit: Blue Origin UPDATE: On December 19th Blue Origin announced that
Chasing Space: An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances by Leland Melvin (2017). Melvin calls himself “the unexpected astronaut” and this book chronicles
Arkwright, by Allen Steele (2016). The Arkwright foundation sends a robotic ship with frozen human gametes to an exoplanet twenty-two light years from Earth. Reviewed
Dr. Joseph Kerwin, Charles “Pete” Conrad, Jr., and Paul Weitz, each sporting the mission patch designed by artist Frank Kelly Freas. 1973 NASA photo. A
Women Spacefarers: Sixty Different Paths to Space, by Umberto Cavallaro (2017). Biographies of sixty women who have flown in space. Reviewed by Susan Raizer.
Apollo Pilot: The Memoir of Astronaut Donn Eisele, by Donn Eisele (2017). Memoir of the pilot of the first Apollo flight into space, published thirty
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Robert A. Lee Title: Exploring the Martian Moons: A Human Mission to Deimos and Phobos Author: Manfred “Dutch” von Ehrenfried NSS
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