Book Review: NASA’s Discovery Program
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Casey Suire Title: NASA’s Discovery Program: The First Twenty Years of Competitive Planetary Exploration Author: Susan
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Apollo 15 remains well documented from entries on the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal website to its astronaut s autobiographies which include Al Worden s 2011
The book was written by Lowell historian Kevin Schindler and Will Grundy a planetary scientist who led the surface composition team for New Horizons Given
The author provides special insider insights that few other historical accounts have considered He weaves in the history of computing and concentrates on the guidance
Brown s The Mission chronicles years of near byzantine maneuvers to accomplish a space mission except that the Europa Clipper has yet to launch Extensively
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