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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This year, the space community lost many notables, including Gene Cernan, Dick Gordon, and Paul Weitz (pictured aboard Skylab). NASA photo, June 1973: “Astronaut Paul...
The CubeSat Structures Competition invites students from around the world to help advance the state-of-the-art of new space technology by designing new CubeSat structures. Winning...
Image: New Shepard capsule after successful landing showing large windows with “Mannequin Skywalker” visible. Credit: Blue Origin UPDATE: On December 19th Blue Origin announced that...
Chasing Space: An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances by Leland Melvin (2017). Melvin calls himself “the unexpected astronaut” and this book chronicles...
Arkwright, by Allen Steele (2016). The Arkwright foundation sends a robotic ship with frozen human gametes to an exoplanet twenty-two light years from Earth. Reviewed...
Dr. Joseph Kerwin, Charles “Pete” Conrad, Jr., and Paul Weitz, each sporting the mission patch designed by artist Frank Kelly Freas. 1973 NASA photo. A...
Women Spacefarers: Sixty Different Paths to Space, by Umberto Cavallaro (2017). Biographies of sixty women who have flown in space. Reviewed by Susan Raizer....
Apollo Pilot: The Memoir of Astronaut Donn Eisele, by Donn Eisele (2017). Memoir of the pilot of the first Apollo flight into space, published thirty...
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Robert A. Lee Title: Exploring the Martian Moons: A Human Mission to Deimos and Phobos Author: Manfred “Dutch” von Ehrenfried NSS...
Reviewed by: Robert A. Lee Title: The Value of the Moon Author: Paul D. Spudis NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Hardcover Pages: 272...
Walking on the Sea of Clouds, by Gray Rinehart (2017). A hard science fiction novel, gritty and realistic, about the first commercial colony on the...
Europa’s Lost Expedition, by Michael Carroll (2016). Carroll’s thoughtful storytelling extrapolated from real science turns Jupiter’s moon Europa into a real place for the reader....
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