by Emily Carney | Nov 26, 2018 | Book Reviews, space books, Space Shuttle, This Space Available
STS-5 crew walkout, November 11, 1982. Front, from left: PLT Robert Overmyer and CDR Vance Brand. Back, from left: MS Bill Lenoir, George Abbey, and MS Joe Allen, laughing (astronaut John Young is behind Abbey). Note the sign in Lenoir’s hand. Photo credit:...
by Emily Carney | Sep 16, 2018 | Apollo, Astronauts, space books, This Space Available
Neil Armstrong somehow finds some time to practice landing on the Moon while he simultaneously spends 4,000 hours in the X-15. Real caption from NASA: “Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 commander, participates in simulation training in preparation for the...
by Emily Carney | Mar 11, 2018 | Apollo, Astronauts, Gemini Program, Project Mercury, space books, This Space Available
1962 NASA photo: “Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. looks into a Celestial Training Device (globe) during training in the Aeromedical Laboratory at Cape Canaveral, Florida.” Some of Glenn’s comments in a 1967 World Book Year Book piece would prove to be...
by Emily Carney | Dec 19, 2017 | Astronauts, Book Reviews, Skylab Space Station, space books, This Space Available
Square-jawed Dr. Ed Gibson gets ready to upset some space journalists, NASA photo, Sept. 10, 1973: “Scientist-astronaut Edward G. Gibson, science pilot for the third manned Skylab mission (Skylab 4), enters a notation in a manual while seated at the control and...
by Emily Carney | Dec 17, 2017 | Astronauts, Skylab Space Station, space books, Space Science, Technology, This Space Available
This year, the space community lost many notables, including Gene Cernan, Dick Gordon, and Paul Weitz (pictured aboard Skylab). NASA photo, June 1973: “Astronaut Paul J. Weitz, Skylab 2 pilot, mans the control and display console of the Apollo Telescope Mount...
by Emily Carney | Jul 16, 2017 | Astronauts, NASA, Russian space program, space books, This Space Available
From July 18, 1966: “Astronaut Michael Collins, command pilot, is photographed inside the spacecraft during the Gemini 10 mission.” NASA photo. The late 1980s represented a transitional time for both the U.S. and Soviet space programs. In January 1986, an...
by Emily Carney | Jan 24, 2017 | Book Reviews, Russian space program, space books, This Space Available
Several proposed military space programs, including the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program, are covered in Amazing Stories of the Space Age, Rod Pyle’s newest book. Image Credit: National Museum of the U.S. Air Force “Why didn’t I learn to treat everything...
by Emily Carney | Jan 19, 2017 | space books, Space Science, This Space Available
Venus: the enigma of the Solar System, and Island of Clouds’ target. Gerald Brennan’s newest book supposes NASA sent astronauts on a flyby mission to Venus in 1972. 1974 Mariner 10 image from NASA, processed by Ricardo Nunes I am tired, I am weary I could...