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Book Review: NASA Missions to Mars

In his preface, author Piers Bizony notes that the book is a “family-friendly non-academic and almost purely visual celebration” of what we have achieved in exploring the planet Mars—and in this, he has succeeded.

Book Review: The Mission

Brown’s The Mission chronicles years of near-byzantine maneuvers to accomplish a space mission—except that the Europa Clipper has yet to launch. Extensively researched with photographs and notes, the book is also creatively written with segments of near novel-like narration and dialogue.

“Shuttle Mission Control” Provides Fascinating Insider Look At Shuttle History

This Space Available by Emily Carney. The shuttle program, once a symbol of America’s technological might, is frequently a subject of think pieces that depict it as an overly-ambitious step back after the Apollo lunar missions. Enter Marianne J. Dyson, one of the first women flight controllers during the early days of STS, and author of the newly-released Shuttle Mission Control: Flight Controller Stories and Photos, 1981 – 1992. Her newest book is a fascinating, energizing look at the program’s early history, technology, and personalities.

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National Space Society Congratulates ULA, NASA on Launch of Mars 2020 Perseverance Mission

The National Space Society applauds United Launch Alliance (ULA) and NASA for the successful launch of the Mars 2020 Perseverance mission, feted as the agency’s most sophisticated geological and astrobiological Mars mission yet. At 7:50 a.m. EDT, a ULA Atlas V-541 variant leaped off the pad into a sunny Florida sky at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 41, marking the beginning of a nearly seven-month-long journey for rover Perseverance and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.

Podcast Review: Apollo 7: The Forgotten Mission

Matthew Goriachkovsky, a recent graduate of University of California, Irvine, has written and produced a new podcast, Apollo 7: The Forgotten Mission. Well-researched, very listenable, and often hilarious, it features interviews with Walt Cunningham (the mission’s lunar module pilot), oral history interviews from the mission’s late commander Wally Schirra, space historian Francis French, and two of the late Donn Eisele’s children, Kristy and Andrew Eisele.