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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Matthew Goriachkovsky, a recent graduate of University of California, Irvine, has written and produced a new podcast, Apollo 7: The Forgotten Mission. Well-researched, very listenable,...
This Space Available, by Emily Carney. Fred Haise may be best known as the Apollo 13 lunar module pilot who, along with crew mates Jim...
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...
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...
The new series For All Mankind (available on Apple TV+ and created by Ronald D. Moore, who has worked on Star Trek and created the...
Countdown: 2979 Days to the Moon, by Suzanne Slade. Reviewed by Clifford R. McMurray. Especially wonderful about this children’s book about Apollo are the illustrations...
A grass-roots media project involving some NSS members is now available on Amazon Prime: “50/50 Lunar Legends” a new documentary about the 50th anniversary of...
This Space Available, by Emily Carney. The book Chasing The Moon (a companion to the PBS series of the same name, which premieres on Monday,...
The last six months have brought us two major movies about Apollo 11, and some of its figures: First Man (released October 2018), and Apollo...
By Emily Carney. The new documentary Apollo 11, directed by Todd Douglas Miller, manages to stun the viewer less than two minutes into the film....
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: “Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, command pilot of the Gemini-8 spaceflight, sits in the Launch Complex 16 trailer during suiting up...
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