Book Review: NASA’s Discovery Program
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Casey Suire Title: NASA’s Discovery Program: The First Twenty Years of Competitive Planetary Exploration Author: Susan
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This Space Available by Emily Carney This post will spotlight two books that defined one sub genre in spaceflight literature the astronaut autobiography These autobiographies
This Space Available By Emily Carney This post will spotlight four books that defined one sub genre in spaceflight literature the astronaut or in one
I was very fortunate to be friends with Al Worden during his last decade on this planet before he finally made the last 60 miles
NASA astronaut and Apollo 15 Command Module Pilot Alfred Worden was a featured guest and speaker at the 2019 International Space Development Conference Al was
The National Space Society mourns the passing of the Society 8217 s supporter Alfred M Worden a member of the 5th class of NASA astronauts
By Melissa Silva In what will likely be one of the final firsts in Earth orbital spacewalking at 7 38 a m EDT yesterday astronauts
This Space Available by Emily Carney In a previous This Space Available blog post I wrote about Dr Brian O Leary the Excess Eleven astronaut
This Space Available by Emily Carney In July 2013 I was honored to attend the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation s gala dinner celebrating Skylab s 40th
This Space Available by Emily Carney To gain some perspective upon the role of the astronaut scientist within NASA during the mid 1960s this author
Over a week has passed since First Man was released in the United States and it continues to be the Number 1 topic of discussion
NASA photo March 16 1966 8220 Astronaut Neil A Armstrong command pilot of the Gemini 8 spaceflight sits in the Launch Complex 16 trailer during
Neil Armstrong somehow finds some time to practice landing on the Moon while he simultaneously spends 4 000 hours in the X 15 Real caption
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Category Nonfiction Reviewed by John J Vester Title Nuclear Rockets To the Moon and Mars Author Manfred Dutch von Ehrenfried Format Paperback Kindle Pages 270
Partially Successful Flight Reached Space and Demonstrated New Hot Staging System The National Space Society congratulates SpaceX on the second test of its Starship Super
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