Book Review: A Future Spacefaring Society
We are at the cusp of building an orbital industrial infrastructure and establishing human settlements in space. This book investigates what it takes to do that.
Emily Carney
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Lunar Lander, The Real Life Version, NASA photo from July 21, 1969: “The Apollo 11 Lunar Module ascent stage, with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and...
“Listen, I know it’s extremely difficult to fly with someone this handsome. Sorry, Owen and Al.” NASA photo, dated Jan. 19, 1972: “Prime crew members...
HAVE YOU SEEN ME LATELY?Development Model of Skylab Serpentuator Arm, dated Jan. 3, 1969. Found at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Serpentuator.jpg Sometimes curiosity can be sparked by a...
Just seconds before chaos ensues, Skylab’s Saturn V climbs into the skies on May 14th, 1973. NASA photo. With rising internal temperatures and a trickle...
A Buran wind tunnel model. Photo by author Kobel, from Wikimedia Commons. Here is part two of space historian Jay Chladek’s series about the real...
From Wikimedia Commons: “OK-GLI Buran programme spacecraft at the Technik Museum Speyer, Germany on exhibition during 2013.” Image taken from Flickr user pasukaru76’s photostream, marked...
NASA image: “Mariner 4 image, the first close-up image ever taken of Mars. This shows an area about 330 km across by 1200 km from...
Viking 1 surveys the “Big Joe” rock at Chryse Planitia. NASA image. You should go there, it is so nice, Mars.You should be there, it’s...
From NASA: “Taken by the Viking 1 lander shortly after it touched down on Mars, this image is the first photograph ever taken from the...
From Wikipedia: “Visitors at the 38th Paris International Air and Space Show at Le Bourget Airfield line up to tour a Soviet An-225 Mechta aircraft...
From NASA: “This photograph of the sun, taken on Dec. 19, 1973, during the third and final manned Skylab mission (Skylab 4), shows one of...
From NASA, March 1981 photo: “The space shuttle orbiter Columbia is showered with lights in this nocturnal scene at Launch Pad 39A, as preparations are...
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