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Reviewed by: Clifford R. McMurray Title: To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers Author: Chris Gainor NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Paperback Pages:...

Reviewed by: Clifford R. McMurray Title: Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom Author: George Leopold NSS Amazon link for this book...

Reviewed by: Robert A. Lee Title: The Swarm: The Second Formic War (Volume 1) Authors: Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston NSS Amazon link for...

Reviewed by: Loretta Hall Title: Picture This! Grasping the Dimensions of Time and Space Author: Michael Carroll NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Hardcover/Kindle...

Several proposed military space programs, including the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program, are covered in Amazing Stories of the Space Age, Rod Pyle’s newest book. Image...

Reviewed by: Mark Lardas Title: Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race...

Category: Fiction Reviewed by: Peter Spasov Title: Science Fiction by Scientists, An Anthology of Short Stories Editor: Michael Brotherton NSS Amazon link for this book...

Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Loretta Hall Title: Blueprint for a Battlestar: Serious Scientific Explanations Behind Sci Fi’s Greatest Inventions Author: Rod Pyle NSS Amazon link...

Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Peter Spasov Title: Mars: Making Contact Author: Rod Pyle NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Hardcover Pages: 192 Publisher: Andre...

Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Clifford R. McMurray Title: Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue With His Century: Volume 2 (1948-1988): The Man Who Learned Better Author:...

Category: Fiction Reviewed by: Clifford R. McMurray Title: Zero Phase: Apollo 13 on the Moon Author: Gerald Brennan NSS Amazon link for this book Format:...

Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Marianne Dyson Title: Go for Orbit: One of Americas First Women Astronauts Finds Her Space Author: Margaret Rhea Seddon NSS Amazon...

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