Category Archives: Space books

The Rocket Company: Chapters 20-23

November 15, 2013 TopSpacer

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 or so. 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

Exoplanets, SETI, Space books

Interviews with Lee Billings, author of “Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars”

October 11, 2013 TopSpacer

Here are two interviews with Lee Billings, author of the new book Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars, which reports on the discovery of exoplanets and what it means with regard to the search for signs of life off earth:

History, Space books

Books: “Russia in Space” and “My Brief History”

October 9, 2013 TopSpacer

I’ve had these book review links in my queue for weeks and finally posting them. I’m reading several books for review myself and will try to say something about them soon.

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Anatoly Zak, who runs the RussianSpaceWeb.com website, has a book out on the Russian space program and industry and its getting good reviews:

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Jeff Foust writes about a new autobiography of Stephen Hawking : Review: My Brief History – The Space Review

My Brief History is not just a play on words, but an accurate description: it is a short (less than 150 pages, with pictures) autobiography by Hawking, describing his life from his modest childhood through his academic pursuits and personal challenges. His decision to study cosmology, he writes, was rooted in a childhood interest in model trains and complex board games: “an urge to know how systems worked and how to control him,” something he says his studies of the universe now satisfy. “If you understand how the universe operates, you control it, in a way.”