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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Category Nonfiction Reviewed by Clifford R McMurray Title Far Side of the Moon Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman and the Woman Who Gave Him Wings
This Space Available by Emily Carney To celebrate twelve years of This Space Available here are twelve spaceflight books in no particular order some new
Category Nonfiction Reviewed by Douglas G Adler Title Back to the Moon The Next Giant Leap for Humankind Author Joseph Silk NSS Amazon link for
Category Nonfiction Reviewed by John J Vester Title A Portrait of the Scientist as a young Woman A Memoir Author Lindy Elkins Tanton NSS Amazon
Category Nonfiction Reviewed by John J Vester Title SpaceX Starship to Mars The First 20 Years Author Erik Seedhouse NSS Amazon link for this book
Category Nonfiction Reviewed by Peter Spasov Title Life in Space NASA Life Sciences Research During the Late Twentieth Century Author Maura Phillips Mackowski NSS Amazon
Category Nonfiction Reviewed by Ted Spitzmiller Title The Big Book of Mars Author Marc Hartzman NSS Amazon link for this book Format Paperback Kindle Pages
Category Nonfiction Reviewed by Casey Suire Title Wild Ride A Memoir of I V Drips and Rocket Ships Author Hayley Arceneaux NSS Amazon link for
Category Fiction Reviewed by John J Vester Title Holdout Author Jeffrey Kluger Format Hardcover paperback Kindle Pages 352 Publisher Dutton Date August 2022 Retail Price
This is a riveting biography of the first astronaut Soviet Lt Yuri Gagarin to orbit the Earth in 1961 The author has an exceptional ability
A former Executive Director of NSS and Deputy Administrator of NASA Garver has been a pivotal force in modern spaceflight and the ups and downs
This Space Available By Emily Carney Fred Haise has probably experienced more near misses and what ifs than any other astronaut in spaceflight history
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Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Peter Spasov Title: The Music of Space: Scoring the Cosmos in Film and Television Author: Chris
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Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Peter Spasov Title: Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos Author: Lisa
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Category: Children’s Books Reviewed by: Susan Raizer Title: An Unlikely Astronaut Author: Susan Kilrain with Francis French Illustrator: Becky Hardy
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Category Nonfiction Reviewed by John J Vester Title Nuclear Rockets To the Moon and Mars Author Manfred Dutch von Ehrenfried Format Paperback Kindle Pages 270
Partially Successful Flight Reached Space and Demonstrated New Hot Staging System The National Space Society congratulates SpaceX on the second test of its Starship Super
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