Jan 23, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Space Race, The Moon
John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon by John M. Logsdon; Palgrave Macmillan; New York, New York; $35.00 (Hardcover); 2010. In a time when America is looking for another “Sputnik Moment” to spur the country on a number of fronts, this scholarly and well-written...
Jan 13, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, Space and Science, Space Research
The Doomsday Lobby – Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians and Marauding Meteors by James T. Bennett; Copernicus Books/Springer; New York, New York; $24.95; (soft cover); 2010. I think you’ll find this scholarly book of value – and somewhat surprising in its...
Jan 4, 2011 | Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Shuttle, The Moon, The Sun, Why Space
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...
Dec 25, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space and Science, Space Research
Confronting Space Debris – Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon by Dave Baiocchi and William Welser IV; RAND Corporation; Santa Monica, California; $21.60 (paperback/special web discount); 2010. This is an absorbing and...
Nov 28, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, Kids Space, Space and Science
How Old is the Universe? by David Weintraub; Princeton University Press; Princeton, New Jersey; $29.95; January 2011. This is a very engaging and readable book that will help you wrap your mind around an agreed to astronomical actuality: The universe is 13.7 billion...
Nov 20, 2010 | Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle
Trailblazing Mars – NASA’s Next Giant Leap by Pat Duggins; University Press of Florida; Gainesville, Florida; $24.95 (hard cover); 2010. The distant reddish hue of Mars in the night sky is a magnet for exploration. Eye-catching glimpses of the red planet were first...
Nov 5, 2010 | Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, The Moon
Surveyor: Lunar Exploration Program – The NASA Mission Reports Edited and compiled by Robert Godwin; Apogee Books; Burlington, Ontario Canada; $17.95 (soft cover); 2010. All too often, in our forward plunge into deep space, we forget the legacy projects of achievement...
Oct 24, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space Race, Space Research, Space Tourism
Space Commerce – The Inside Story By The People Who Are Making It Happen by Langdon Morris and Kenneth J. Cox, Editors, An Aerospace Technology Working Group Book; $27.95; 2010. Here’s a very readable and informative look at giving space the business! That is, how...
Oct 17, 2010 | Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
From Jars to the Stars – How Ball Came to Build a Comet-Hunting Machine by Todd Neff; Earthviewmedia; Denver, Colorado; $24.95 (trade paperback); 2010. Here’s a fascinating book that’s perfect for reading as NASA’s Deep Impact/EPOXI spacecraft makes a breathtaking...
Oct 8, 2010 | Blog, Book Reviews, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, Space Race, Space Tourism, Spaceports
The Wright Stuff – The Century of Effort Behind Your Ticket to Space By Derek Webber; Apogee Books; Burlington, Ontario Canada; $25.95 (soft cover); October 2010. Here’s an invaluable guide to the emergence of public space tourism. What the reader will find in...