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Note: A sample of book related
articles and reviews this period. Unfortunately, many
of the links here will expire over time.
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However, they often will charge for a search or
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from the title.
- A
New Land of Opportunity: One way to recapture the
frontier spirit and relearn the value of hard work,
self-reliance and risk-taking - WSJ.com - Dec.21.08
- Glenn Reynolds reviews the new book How
To Live on Mars by Robert Zubrin.
- Robert
Zubrin loves NASA - The Space Review - Dec.22.08
- Taylor Dinerman reviews the new book How
To Live on Mars by Robert Zubrin
- Space
books that we love (for children... mostly) - Tiny
Mantras - Nov.25.08
- New
alternatives to the Vision - The Space Review - Nov.17.08
- Jeff Foust the
new book Space
Enterprise: Living and Working Offworld in the 21st
Century by Philip Robert Harris.
- Review:
Around the World in 84 Days - The Space Review - Nov.10.08
- Jeff Foust reviews Around
the World in 84 Days: The Authorized Biography of
Skylab Astronaut Jerry Carr, by David Shayler
- Review:
Solar Sails - The Space Review - Oct.6.08 - Jeff
Foust reviews the book Solar
Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel
By Giovanni Vulpetti, Les Johnson, and Gregory L.
Matloff
- Rocket
Man, or, Judging a Book by Its Cover - omnivoracious
- Sept.18.08
- Summer
Space Reading Camp Pt. V: Special Edition - Out of
the Cradle - Aug.12.08
- Summer
Space Reading Camp Pt. IV: The Old High Frontier -
Out of the Cradle - Aug.6.08
- Book
Review: Floating to Space - Universe Today - July.22.0
- Mark Mortimer reviews Floating
to Space: The Airship to Orbit Program by
John M. Powell
- Summer
Space Reading Camp Pt. III: The New High Frontier
- Out of the Cradle - July.30.08 - Books about
the "high frontier in general - asteroids, space stations,
rocket flights and more".
- Summer
Space Reading Camp Pt. II: The Old Moon - Out of the
Cradle - July.21.08 - Lunar sci-fi books for young
people from the 1950s and 1960s.
- Summer
Space Reading Camp Pt. I: The New Moon - Out of the
Cradle - July.16.08
- Review:
Tourists in Space - The Space Review - July.14.08
- Jeff Foust the book: Tourists
in Space: A Practical Guide by Erik Seedhouse
- Review:
SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History - The Space Review
- June.16.08 - Jeff Foust reviews SpaceShipOne:
An Illustrated History by Dan Linehan :
- Frontiers
of Propulsion Science: A Major New Text - Centauri
Dreams - June.10.08
- Review:
The Universe in a Mirror - The Space Review - June.9.08
- Jeff Foust reviews the new book The
Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space
Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It by
Robert Zimmerman
- SpaceShipOne
tales told - Cosmic Log/msnbc.com - June.2.08
- Alan Boyle reviews the book SpaceShipOne:
An Illustrated History by Dan Linehan:
- Space
World remembered - The Space Review - May.19.08
- Review:
To a Distant Day - The Space Review - May.12.08
- Jeff Foust reviews the book To
a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers by Chris Gainor
- Dead
trees and the final frontier - The Space Review -
May.5.08 and A
quick guide to space news publications in print -
The Space Review - May.5.08 - Dwayne Day reviews
space news publications
- Geekly
Reader - "Space Cadet" by Robert A. Heinlein
- Geekdad from Wired.com - Apr.22.08
- Review:
To the End of the Solar System - The Space Review
- Apr.21.08 - Jeff Foust reviews To
the End of the Solar System: The Story of the Nuclear
Rocket by James A. Dewar.
- Review:
Beyond UFOs - The Space Review - Mar.31.08 - Jeff
Foust reviews the book Beyond
UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Its
Astonishing Implications for Our Future by
Jeffrey Bennett.
- Review:
Human Missions to Mars - the Space Review - Mar.17.08
- Anthony Young reviews the book Human
Missions to Mars: Enabling Technologies for Exploring
the Red Planet by Donald Rapp
- Review:
Robots in Space - The Space Review - Feb.18.08
- Jeff Foust reviews Robots
in Space: Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary
Travel
- Review:
Mission to Jupiter - The Space Review - Jan.21.08
- Taylor Dinerman reviews Mission
to Jupiter: A History of the Galileo Project
- Review:
The Lunar Exploration Scrapbook - The Space Review
- Jan.21.08 - Jeff Foust reviews The
Lunar Exploration Scrapbook
- Review:
Lives of the Planets - The Space Review - Jan.7.07
- Jeff Foust reviews the book Lives
of the Planets: A Natural History of the Solar System.
- Space
Lifestyle Magazine - Fall 2007 - review of Space
on Earth by Charles S. Cockell and Rocketeers
by Michael Belfiore.
- Review:
Apollo Moon Missions: The Unsung Heroes - The Space
Review - Dec.10.07 - a review by Jeff Foust of
Apollo
Moon Missions: The Unsung Heroes
- Review:
Von Braun - The Space Review - Nov.26.07 - Jeff
Foust reviews Von
Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War
- Review:
Living Off the Land in Space - The Space Review -
Oct.22.07 - Jeff Foust reviews Living
Off the Land in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos
by by Gregory L. Matloff, Les Johnson, and C Bangs.
- Review:
Red Moon Rising - The Space Review - Oct.9.07
- Jeff Foust reviews Red
Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries That
Ignited the Space Age
- Review:
A Ball, A Dog, and A Monkey - The Space Review - Oct.1.07
- Jeff Foust reviews A
Ball, A Dog, and A Monkey - The Space Race Begins
- Review:
Two Shadows on the Moon - The Space Review - Sept.24.07
- Jeff Foust reviews the book: In
the Shadow of the Moon
- Lost
in Space - IEEE Spectrum - Sept.070 - Jim Oberg
reviews the book ISScapades:
The Crippling of America’s Space Program by
Donald A. Beattie.
- Living
Off the Land in Space (review) - Centauri Dreams -
Sept.17.07 - review of the book Living
Off the Land in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos
by Gregory L. Matloff, Les Johnson, and C Bangs
- Review:
Laika - The Space Review - Sept.10.07 - Jeff Foust
reviews the graphic novel: Laika
by Nick Abadzis.
- Calibrating
the Cosmos - The Space Review - Aug.27.07 - Jeff
Foust reviews the book: Calibrating
the Cosmos: How Cosmology Explains Our Big Bang Universe
- Ben
Bova: Up, up and away, for curious, young minds -
Naples News [Florida] - Aug.18.07 - Ben Bova reviews
Space
And Astronomy: Decade by Decade by Marianne
J. Dyson
- The
voice of von Braun - The Space Review - Aug.6.07
- Jeff Foust reviews the book The
Voice of Dr. Wernher von Braun.
- Space:
The Private Frontier - Business Week - Aug.6.07
- review of The
Rocketeers by Michael Belfiore.
- Review:
The Telescope - The Space Review - July.16.07
- Jeff Foust revews The
Telescope: Its History, Technology, and Future by
Geoff Andersen
- Review:
Contact with Alien Civilizations - The Space Review
- July.9.07 - Kenneth Silber reviews the book
: Contact
with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears about
Encountering Extraterrestrials - by Michael A.G. Michaud
- Review:
Space Invaders - The Space Review - July.2.07
- Jeff Foust reviews the book, Space
Invaders: How Robotic Spacecraft Explore the Solar
System by Michel van Pelt.
- Review:
Into That Silent Sea - The Space Review - June.25.07
- Jeff Foust reviews: Into
That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965
- Reviews:
space travel and tourism - The Space Review - June.18.07
- Jeff Foust reviews: Destination
Space: How Space Tourism Is Making Science Fiction
a Reality * The
Hazards of Space Travel: A Tourist's Guide
- Review:
Challenger Revealed - The Space Review - June.11.07
- Jeff Foust reviews: Challenger
Revealed: An Insider's Account of How the Reagan Administration
Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age
- Review:
Distant Worlds - The Space Review - June.4.07
- Jeff Foust reviews: Distant
Worlds: Milestones in Planetary Exploration
- Review:
Rocketdyne: Powering Humans Into Space - The Space
Review - May.29.07 - A review of the book: Rocketdyne:
Powering Humans Into Space
- Book
looks at starring roles of first space travelers -
SignOnSanDiego.com - May.23.07 - Interview with
a co-author of Into
That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965
- Review:
Too Far From Home - The Space Review - May.7.07
- Jeff Foust looks at Too
Far From Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space
by Chris Jones
- Review:
Space transportation systems, present and future -
The Space Review - Mar.19.07 - Jeff Foust looks
at two new rocket pocket guidebooks: Space
Shuttle Fact Archive by Robert Godwin and
Project
Constellation: Moon, Mars & Beyond by Tim McElyea.
- Oni
Races into "Space" - CBR News - Mar.13.07
- graphic novel First
in Space by James Vining
- Review:
The Man Who Ran the Moon - The Space Review - Feb.26.07
- Eve Lichtgarn reviews a book about the first administrator
of NASA: The
Man Who Ran the Moon: James E. Webb, NASA, and the
Secret History of Project Apollo By Piers
Bizony.
- Review:
Into the Black - The Space Review - Feb.19.07
- Taylor Dinerman reviews the book Into
the Black: JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004
by Peter J. Westwick.
- Review:
Lunar and Planetary Rovers - The Space Review - Jan.29.07
- Jeff Foust reviews the book Lunar
and Planetary Rovers: The Wheels of Apollo and the
Quest for Mars by Anthony Young.
- Leaving
The Planet by Space Elevator - Space Elevator Blog
- Jan.18.07 - review of Leaving
the Planet by Space Elevator by Philip Ragan
and Brad Edwards
- Review:
more tales from the Space Age - The Space Review -
Jan.8.07 - Jeff Foust reviews Inside
the Space Race: A Space Surgeon’s Diary By
Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D. and
On the Cutting Edge: Tales of a Cold War Engineer
at the Dawn of the Nuclear, Guided Missile, Computer
and Space Ages By Dr. Robert F. Brodsky
- Space
books - Instapundit - Jan.1.07
- Sharing
SETI: A Personal Book List - Space.com - Dec.9.04
- Review:
Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar
Exploration - The Space Review - Dec.6.04
- Stephen
Hawking on the men who shaped the known universe -
The Space Review - Dec.6.04
- "Unveiling
the man with that famous step" - collectSPACE
- Dec.4.04
- The
First Space Race - a review by Jeff Foust - Nov.29.04
- Light
This Candle: The Life and Times of Alan Shepard, America’s
First Spaceman by Neal Thompson, review by Jeff Foust
Monday, Nov.1.04
- Vision
For Space : The Winding Journey Through Life and The
Space Program As Seen By An Ordinary Joe by Joe
Lennox - iUniverse Publishing
- Astronaut's
bio different from usual histories - Florida Today
- Oct.13.04
- "Story:
The Way of Water" by Anne E. Lenehan (about astronaut
Story Musgrave) - Review by Colin Burgess posted at
collectSpace
- We
must mine the moon, man says: Local author argues
lunar mission works only as business trip - Huntsville
Times - Aug.28.04
- New
Moon Rising - Interview with Frank Sietzen - Space.com
- Aug.20.04
- Moonrush
- The Space Review - Aug.16.04 - book review by
Jeff Foust
- The
Depths of Space: The Pioneer Planetary Probes - review
by Jeff Foust - Space Review - Aug.9.04
- "I
Am A Space Shuttle, I Love To Fly" Awarded Certified
Space Imagination Product Status- Space Foundation
- July.16.04
- Book
details NASA's ordeal - UPI - July.13.04
- Man's
Greatest Adventure! - apollospacebooks.com
- Neil
Armstrong's space-race heroics leap off the page -
The Seattle Times - July.5.04
- Space
journalists offer a countdown to disaster - Indystar
- July.3.04 (review of "Com Check...The Final
Flight of Shuttle Columbia")
- Prepare
for blastoff [Review of Lost in Space by Klerkx]-
Guardian - May.29.04
- Book
Review: Comm Check - Universe Today - May.5.04
- Review:
future space technologies - The Space Review - Apr.19.04
- Review:
Leaving Earth - The Space Review - Apr.12.04
- "'Candle'
author melts 'icy' astronaut" - collectSPACE
- Mar.26.04
- Greatness
written in the stars: New biographies of the first
Americans in space, first man on the moon - Houston
Chronicles - Apr.11.04
- The
Fall Of NASA? - Transterrestrial Musings - Mar.8.04
- Review:
Lost in Space - The Space Review - Mar.8.04
- Book
Review: Sojourner, An Insider's View of the Mars Pathfinder
Mission - Universe Today - Mar.3.04
- Greg
Klerkx Interview - The Space Show hosted by: Dr. David
Livingston - Feb.24.04
- Columbia
plus one year - Comm Check: The Final Flight of
Shuttle Columbia + High Calling: The Courageous
Life and Faith of Space Shuttle Columbia Commander
Rick Husband - Feb.16.04 - two book reviews
by Jeff Foust.
- Space
Programs: Exploration and Research Efforts Outside
the United States by Daphne Burleson, 2004, McFarland&
Co.
- 'Lost'
uncovers NASA warts: Author sees space agency as hindering
technology progress - Huntsville Times - Feb.8.04
- A
bitter, biased critique of NASA - Philadelphia Inquirer
- Feb.8.04
- System
Failure: Two veteran journalists investigate a national
disaster. Reviewed by James Trefil - Washingtonpost.com
- Feb.8.04
- The
Monopoly That Blocks The Way to Mars - Review of Lost
in Space - WSJ.com - Jan.20.04 (subscription
required)
- "Shuttle
commander's wife pens book" - collectSPACE -
Jan.15.04
- Society
creates its own space: Book recounts effort to simulate
Mars on island in Arctic - Rocky Mountain News - Jan.8.04
- Book
Review: recalling Sojourner - The Space Review - Dec.22.03
- Book
Review: Mars on Earth - Universe Today - Dec.15.03
- Book
Review: A Traveler's Guide to Mars - Universe Today
- Nov.20.03
- Featured
Book - Magnificent Mars - Nov.4.03
- Review:
Satellites, Rockets, and Eisenhower - The Space Review
- Nov.4.03
- "A
conversation with Sy Liebergot" [Author of Apollo
EECOM: Journey of a Lifetime] - collectSPACE - Oct.28.03
- GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE at Missile,
Space & Rocket Used Books
- Kojo
Nnamdi [Radio] Show interview with David Clary,
the author of Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and
the Birth of the Space Age (Amazon)
via audio
streaming. This link may eventually move to the
show archives.
- Satellites
and the Internet Challenges and Solutions by
DC Palter
- The
First Space Race: Launching the World's First Satellite
- Jim McDade interviews Matt Bille, the co-author
of this book about the 1950s race to orbit the first
satellite. (Reprint at collectSPACE
- news - "Book Preview: The First Space Race")
- FBC
examined [Review of "Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost
Innovation in the U.S. Space Program" By Howard E.
McCurdy] - The Space Review - July.21.03
- Richard Jackson of usedspacebooks.com
is "happy to announce that Catalog #15 is now
updated"
- Review:
the aftermath of the Space Age - The Space Review
- July.7.03 - Rocket Dreams: How the Space Age
Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond by Marina
Benjamin
- Dyna-Soar
Hypersonic Strategic Weapons System
by Robert Godwin (Editor )- [also called X-20] - Apogee
books, 2003.
- The
Rocket Team
by Frederick Ordway III & Mitchell R. Sharpe,
Apogee Books, 2003.
- Review:
seeking the ultimate space commercialization guide
- The Space Review - June.30.03 - Jeff Foust reviews
Space: The Free-Market Frontier, by Edward
L. Hudgins (editor) and Made In Space: Space Investor’s
Guide To The Next Revolution, by Kenneth Schweitzer
- Launch
Out by Philip R. Harris * Sample
Text
- Women
secretly trained as U.S. astronauts in 1960s - CNN.com
- Jun.23.03
- Review:
do we need another book about Apollo? - The Space
Review - June.17.03
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