Category Archives: Space books

Activism, Space books, SpaceCasts

Author Mary Roach on The Space Show on Thursday evening

An announcement from The Space Show:

Author Mary Roach is back, Thursday, May 30, 2013 @ 7PM PDT

Dear Listener: I would like to call your attention to a special Space Show program scheduled for Thursday evening, May 30, 7-8PM PDT with author Mary Roach. Mary was last on The Space Show with her very successful and popular books “Packing for Mars” and “Stiff.” Mary is back with her new hit book and best seller, “Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal.” In addition to Mary telling us about Gulp, we will extrapolate to related topics for eating and digesting on the way to Mars, on Mars, food for Mars, and more. Mary Roach is not only very well informed with her science but she is funny, she goes where most authors would not dream of going, she is articulate, and if you have never heard her before or had a chance to ask her a question, trust me on this, you are in for sheer delight plus a first rate education on our topics. Mary is with us for just an hour so callers, keep it tight. Let’s make room for everyone who wants to talk with Mary Roach. If you have any questions about this special Space Show program for Thursday evening, May 30, 7-8PM PDT, please email me. Thanks. Sincerely, Dr. David Livingston

Sincerely,

Dr. David Livingston

Space books, Space Policy

“The Little Book of Space Law”

Leonard David reviews The Little Book of Space Law by Matthew J. Kleiman: Book Review: The Little Book of Space Law – Coalition for Space Exploration

Frankly, after this read you may be a little less afraid to hear that space lawyers are here to help you! As the author suggests in the opening line of the main text: “Practicing law is not rocket science, but sometimes rocket scientists need lawyers.”

 

Events, Science and Technology, Space books

Starship Century – anthology book and symposium on interstellar flight

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Starship Century –  Toward the Grandest Horizon  is an anthology project of Gregory Benford , professor of Physics at UV Irvine and a noted science fiction writer, and his brother James Benford, president of Microwave Systems.

In this ground-breaking anthology James Benford and Gregory Benford combine their talents and celebrated intellects to bring together top scientific leaders and top science fiction writers—all focused on getting us (humans) to the next chapter in space travel, interstellar flight.

This week the Starship Century Symposium 2013 was held at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at the UC San Diego. Speakers included scientists and engineers Freeman Dyson, Paul Davies, Peter Schwartz, John Cramer and Robert Zubrin and science fiction authors Neal Stephenson, Allen Steele, Joe Haldeman, Gregory Benford, Geoffrey Landis and David Brin.

Here are two reports on the talks and discussions:

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Rockets, Solar Sci-Fi, Space books

The Rocket Company: Chapters 6-9

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In the continuing serialization of the updated version of the book The Rocket Company by Patrick J. G. Stiennon and David M. Hoerr, with illustrations by Doug Birkholz.  This week you can obtain the following chapters of the book:

Download these within the next week. Only four chapters will be available at any one time.

See also the electronic version of the updated book is available at  The Rocket Company eBook by Patrick Stiennon, David Hoerr, Peter Diamandis, Doug Birkhol: Kindle Store/Amazon.com.

Activism, Space books

The Space Show this week

The guests on The Space Show this week include:

1. Monday, May 13, 2013, 2-3:30 PM PST (5-6:30 PM EST, 4-5:30 PM CST): We welcome back Buzz Aldrin to discuss his new book, Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration.

2. Tuesday, May 14, 2013 2013, 7-8:30 PM PST (10-11:30 PM EST, 9-10:30 PM CST): We welcome STAN ROSEN and DAVE DRESSLER to discuss the upcoming ISDC Conference at the end of May in San Diego, CA. For more information on ISDC, visit isdc.nss.org/2013/.

3. Friday, May 17: , 2013, 9:30-11 AM PST (11:30- 1 PM CST, 12:30PM-2:00 PM EST): FRANK STRATFORD joins us again from Mars Drive in Australia. Frank will be talking about his latest Space Review article, www.thespacereview.com/article/2281/1.

4. Sunday, May 19, 2013, 12-1:30 PM PST (3-4:30 PM EST, 2-3:30 PM CST). We welcome we welcome back DR. JOHN BRANDENBURG to discuss Feynman, matters of gravity, the Higgs boson (his recent paper in Albq.) and the presence of Chechen terrorists in his Asteroid 20-2012 Sepulveda novel!

See also:
/– The Space Show on Vimeo – webinar videos
/– The Space Show’s Blog – summaries of interviews.
/– The Space Show Classroom Blog – tutorial programs

The Space Show is a project of the One Giant Leap Foundation.