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.
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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...
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...
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Reviewed by: Robert A. Lee Title: The Value of the Moon Author: Paul D. Spudis NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Hardcover Pages: 272...
Walking on the Sea of Clouds, by Gray Rinehart (2017). A hard science fiction novel, gritty and realistic, about the first commercial colony on the...
Europa’s Lost Expedition, by Michael Carroll (2016). Carroll’s thoughtful storytelling extrapolated from real science turns Jupiter’s moon Europa into a real place for the reader....
Category: Fiction Reviewed by: Mark Lardas Title: Mission: Tomorrow: New Stories of the Future of Space Exploration Editor: Bryan Thomas Schmidt NSS Amazon link for...
By Dale Skran NSS Executive Vice President The last two months of 2017 are shaping up as a very exciting time for space development. On...
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