by National Space Society | May 17, 2020 | Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Non-Fiction
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Ted Spitzmiller Title: Proposal for Man-in-Space (1957-1958) Editor: Robert Godwin NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Paperback Pages: 159 Publisher: Apogee Books Date: 2019 Retail Price: $25.95 ISBN: 978-1989044063 For those old...
by National Space Society | Apr 22, 2020 | Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Non-Fiction
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Ted Spitzmiller Title: John Houbolt – The Unsung Hero of the Apollo Moon Landings Author: William F. Causey NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Hardcover/Kindle Pages: 347 Publisher: Purdue University Press Date: March, 2020 Retail...
by Emily Carney | Apr 2, 2020 | Apollo, Astronauts, Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Non-Fiction, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney This post will spotlight two books that defined one sub-genre in spaceflight literature – the astronaut autobiography. These autobiographies are listed in chronological order, by publication date. While it would be impossible due...
by Emily Carney | Mar 25, 2020 | Astronauts, Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Non-Fiction, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney Books still matter. Throughout the last sixty-plus years of spaceflight, literature chronicling spaceflight history and heritage – which run the gamut from detailing hardware and rocketry to describing the features of the Moon and...
by National Space Society | Mar 6, 2020 | Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Non-Fiction
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Ted Spitzmiller Title: Manned Lunar Landing and Return Author: Robert Godwin NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Paperback Pages: 132 Publisher: Apogee Books Date: July 2019 Retail Price: $25.95 ISBN: 978-1926837420 As stated by its...
by National Space Society | Aug 11, 2019 | Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Non-Fiction
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Clifford R. McMurray Title: Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft Author: Jay Gallentine NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Paperback Pages: 544 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Date: June...
by National Space Society | Jul 9, 2019 | Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Non-Fiction
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Robert A. Lee Title: One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon Author: Charles Fishman NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle/AudioCD Pages: 480 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Date:...
by National Space Society | May 30, 2019 | Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Non-Fiction
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Greg Autry Title: The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility Author: Robert Zubrin NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Hardcover/Kindle Pages: 240 Publisher: Prometheus Books...
