Book Review: The 50 Most Extreme Places In Our Solar System

The 50 Most Extreme Places In Our Solar System by David Baker and Todd Ratcliff; The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Massachusetts; $27.95 (Hardcover); 2010. Readers of all backgrounds will love this book. The volume is beautifully produced,...

Book Review: Space – From Earth to the Edge of the Universe

Space – From Earth to the Edge of the Universe by editors Carole Stott, Robert Dinwiddie, David Hughes and Giles Sparrow; Dorling Kindersley(DK) Publishing; New York, New York; $40.00 (hard cover); 2010. Space is big…but so is this large format book. This is a...

Aerospace, an Economic Beacon

  Aerospace products and services continue to represent an financial beacon for the United States, where they are responsible for more than 600,000 jobs. However, like many sectors, gains have been slowed by a sluggish global economy,  according to a new report from...