Book Review: Space Ace
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Douglas G. Adler Title: Space Ace: A Combat Pilot’s Journey from Vietnam to Beyond Earth Author:
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Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Douglas G. Adler Title: Ascension: Life Lessons from the Space Shuttle Columbia Tragedy for Engineers, Managers, and Leaders Author: Steven Hirshorn...
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Susan Raizer Title: Mission: An American Congressman’s Voyage to Space Author: Bill Nelson Format: Paperback/Kindle Pages: 317 Publisher: University of Florida...
The National Space Society invites you to the next Space Forum Thursday, May 15, 2024, 9:00 pm to 10:15 pm EST From Moonwalks to Spaceplanes:...
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. By the mid-1970s, Space Shuttle development was in full swing, even though the Space Transportation System wouldn’t fly until...
This Space Available, by Emily Carney. A sweep of 1970s NASA images reveals treasures chronicling the early development of the Space Shuttle program, which required...
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. In late 1974, NASA was already laying the groundwork for its next big space endeavor, the Space Shuttle. The...
This Space Available by Emily Carney. The shuttle program, once a symbol of America’s technological might, is frequently a subject of think pieces that depict...
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...
Revisiting space literature from the late 1970s still turns up many surprises and “alternate histories” of an age yet to come. One case in point...
STS-5 crew walkout, November 11, 1982. Front, from left: PLT Robert Overmyer and CDR Vance Brand. Back, from left: MS Bill Lenoir, George Abbey, and...
USAF Major Robert H. Lawrence in an undated LIFE photo. Lawrence’s life and career would leave resonances, despite both being cut painfully short. There...
NASA photo, Feb. 1974: “Scientist-astronaut Edward G. Gibson, science pilot for the Skylab 4 mission, demonstrates the effects of zero-gravity as he sails through airlock...
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