by National Space Society | May 24, 2020 | Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Non-Fiction
Category: Nonfiction Reviewed by: Clifford R. McMurray Title: Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention Author: Kathryn D. Sullivan NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook Pages: 304 Publisher: The MIT Press Date:...
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 | May 10, 2020 | Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Fiction
Category: Fiction Reviewed by Peter Spasov Title: Arcadia Mars Author: Doug Cook NSS Amazon link for this book Format: Paperback, Kindle Pages: 402 Publisher: AquilaMission.space Date: April 2019 Retail Price: $14.95/$3.95 ISBN: 978-1095895115 A potential...
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 National Space Society | Apr 10, 2020 | Book Reviews, Book Reviews: Children's Books
Category: Children’s Books Reviewed by: Peter Spasov Title: Welcome to the Moon Author: Marianne Dyson Illustrator: Lindsey Cousens, Alan Bean NSS Amazon link for this book Ages: Middle School Format: Paperback/Kindle Pages: 97 Publisher: Aldrin Family Foundation...
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...
