Book Reviews
Book Review: The Apollo Guidance Computer
[/caption] Springer/Praxis has produced a small library’s worth of books about the Apollo Program. A recent offering from the publisher…
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Book Review: The Space Shuttle: Celebrating Thirty Years of NASA’s First Space Plane
[/caption] The space shuttle program is over. The orbiters are being decommissioned, stripped of the components that allowed them to…
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Book Review: A Dictionary of the Space Age
[/caption] Writing a dictionary is not the same as writing a novel. While it might seem difficult to mess up…
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Book Review: Lunar and Planetary Rovers
[/caption] Ordinarily if a book attempts to cover crewed and unmanned missions – the book is a compilation of space…
Two Into The Blue: One Engineer’s Gemini Reflections
[/caption] It is probably one of the least understood, but most crucial, (in terms of landing a man on the…
Q&A with Brian Cox, part 3: ‘Wonders’ and Popularizing Science
[/caption] Professor Brian Cox is the Chair in Particle Physics at the University of Manchester, and works on the ATLAS…
Win A Copy of Brian Cox’s New Book, “Wonders of the Universe”
This week we've been talking with Professor Brian Cox about physics, space exploration and the future. He also talks about…
Falling to Earth
People have walked on the Moon. A lucky few. Most have readily shared their experience; some did so with a…
Burt Rutan’s Race To Space: A Primer For Things To Come
[/caption] Voyager, Proteus and SpaceShipOne have become aerospace legends. As has the man who established them all – Burt Rutan.…
Win a Copy of “Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries”
What are the top 100 discoveries in the history of astronomy? In his book, "Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries," noted astronomy…