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 | Sep 22, 2019 | Apollo, Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Children's Books
Category: Children’s Books Reviewed by: Clifford R. McMurray Title: Countdown: 2979 Days to the Moon Author: Suzanne Slade Illustrator: Thomas Gonzales NSS Amazon link for this book Ages: 9 to 14 Format: Hardcover Pages: 144 Publisher: Peachtree Publishing Company...
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 Emily Carney | Jun 23, 2019 | Apollo, Book Reviews, This Space Available
This Space Available By Emily Carney This anniversary year has turned up a wealth of Apollo 11-related content, some wholly original, some not. It would be easy for writers and filmmakers to simply rehash the general story, just like it has been told scores of times...
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...
