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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This Space Available By Emily Carney “You know who I am,” he said The speaker was an angel He coughed and shook his crumpled wings...
A newly published book reclaims the three Apollo 1 astronauts from tragedy. The following article addresses the Apollo 1 fire and the loss of its...
This Space Available By Emily Carney A new video by the fantastic lunarmodule5 channel on YouTube recreates Skylab’s last moments and underscores how it held...
This Space Available, By Emily Carney A new book reveals the unseen dimensions of the oft-neglected Gemini program. Here’s what most people know about NASA’s...
Two new books shed light on the vulnerability of space launches to technology and human decision-making. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on...
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. A new photo book shines a light upon the Mercury Project, 60+ years young....
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. While it would be impossible for a blog post to list the thousands of personnel – NASA and contractors...
This Space Available, By Emily Carney. The king of space settlements gains new life with the release of his digitized archives....
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. The recently-released book The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of...
This Space Available, by Emily Carney. We catch up with NASA’s rebel with many causes during his 1970s era....
This Space Available, by Emily Carney. To celebrate twelve years of This Space Available, here are twelve spaceflight books – in no particular order, some...
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