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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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...
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. One of the lesser known personalities of the Apollo lunar program is Ron Evans, Apollo 17 command module pilot....
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. Two new books illuminate the challenging times two NASA Group Five astronauts experienced during the 1970s, a decade more...
By undertaking a 500-year genomic engineering program, humans could modify themselves to better tolerate the extreme environments of outer space....
A team of lunar explorers investigate a momentous discovery leading to an audacious mission aboard a restored extraterrestrial spacecraft to divert an extinction-capable asteroid from...
With this book Weir skips the rest of the solar system and heads straight out for interstellar space. Readers of science fiction that cares about...
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA’s Challenger Disaster by author Kevin Cook is in...
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...
This Space Available, by Emily Carney. A book in the works for several years by Retro Space Images’ J.L. Pickering and veteran space reporter John...
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...
Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut is a fast paced, intelligent chronicle of the less public race to develop a...
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