Book Review: Return to Launch
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Casey Suire Title: Return to Launch: Florida and America’s Space Industry Author: Stephen C. Smith Format:
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In his preface, author Piers Bizony notes that the book is a “family-friendly non-academic and almost purely visual celebration” of what we have achieved in...
The book contains plenty of useful information for those wanting to personally experience either suborbital or orbital spaceflight. The author interviewed an impressive collection of...
Dr. Gregg’s book explains what is going on in the space business and why it is happening, and how the industry could be valued at...
Anna Nesterova’s art adds a great deal to the book and does a great job depicting such concepts as future Martian settlements and the nitrogen...
“I regarded the text so highly that advance copies have already been used to shape the minds of future Air Force officers who will one...
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Many familiar faces among the NewSpace entrepreneurs, including Jeff Bezos, were O’Neill acolytes in their younger days. His story is, from start to finish, the...
As with Eileen Collins' flying aircraft and spacecraft, so with this book: all the goals she set for herself in writing the book—inspiration and historical...
By undertaking a 500-year genomic engineering program, humans could modify themselves to better tolerate the extreme environments of outer space....
The objective of this book is to tell the Shuttle’s story in a succinct manner and with the use of extensive illustrations, and the hundreds...
One purpose of this autobiographical book is to provide examples of how those with non-technical degrees might find worthwhile and exciting careers in the space...
Michael Carroll’s Envisioning Exoplanets is a feast for the eyes and the imagination. More than 200 spectacular images grace its pages, giving substance to the...
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