{"id":3633,"date":"2013-07-26T02:23:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T02:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2013-07-26T02:23:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T02:23:13","slug":"the-pioneer-detectives-by-konstantin-kakaes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3633","title":{"rendered":"“The Pioneer Detectives” by Konstantin Kakaes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Konstantin Kakaes<\/a> announces a new book about the Pioneer Anomaly<\/a> and the investigation into its cause:<\/p>\n

The Pioneer Detectives<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve just published a short book. I’m very excited about it, and wanted to share the news with you.<\/p>\n

The Pioneer Detectives<\/em> is on sale now on amazon.com<\/a> for a mere $2.99, less than a cup of fancy coffee. It’s also out in Britain<\/a>\u00a0for just \u00a32 (and a half-shilling).<\/p>\n

The book is short and fun\u2014the length of a novella\u2014but also, in the words of Amazon’s reviewer, “powerful and sad”. If you’ve got any curiosity about how NASA works behind the scenes or why scientists believe what they do, I think you’ll enjoy the book.\u00a0Many others already are\u2014I’m happy to say it’s the #1 best-selling Kindle Single in “The Sciences”<\/a> and the #2 best-selling astronomy book on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The book tells the story of the “Pioneer Anomaly”\u2014a force slowing down the spacecraft Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 while they left the solar system as humanity’s first emissaries into the galaxy. I hope you’ll forgive the mass e-mail, both if it’s been quite a while since we’ve talked, and if we’ve been in touch recently and you’re already aware of the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Konstantin Kakaes announces a new book about the Pioneer Anomaly and the investigation into its cause: The Pioneer Detectives I’ve just published a short book. I’m very excited about it, and wanted to share the news with you. The Pioneer Detectives is on sale now on amazon.com for a mere $2.99, less than a cup … Continue reading “The Pioneer Detectives” by Konstantin Kakaes<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology","category-space-books"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-WB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6542,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6542","url_meta":{"origin":3633,"position":0},"title":"Profile of rocketry pioneer Max Valier + Former defense chief writing asteroid-mining novel","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Michael Shinabery, \u00a0an education specialist and Humanities Scholar at\u00a0the\u00a0New Mexico Museum of Space History\u00a0in Alamogordo, New Mexico posts frequent articles on a range of space history topics. His latest article is about\u00a0Max Valier,\u00a0a rocketry pioneer and early science fiction writer :\u00a0\u00a0Valier Envisions Rocketry Through Engineering and Sci-Fi \u00a0(Part 1) -\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "History"","block_context":{"text":"History","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15019,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15019","url_meta":{"origin":3633,"position":1},"title":"“Pioneer” – A space science-fiction novel from Robert Zimmerman","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Space historian and journalist Bob Zimmerman\u00a0has released a science fiction book called Pioneer, which he actually wrote in 1982 but it portrays a future of space settlement very relevant to what is happening in the space world today: Pioneer | Behind The Black.\u00a0Here is a press release about Pioneer: Riveting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Mars"","block_context":{"text":"Mars","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=78"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=hobbyspace&l=am2&o=1&a=B0762D39XH","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15309,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15309","url_meta":{"origin":3633,"position":2},"title":"Books: Thoughts on “Pioneer” + More about Apollo 8","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently posted an item about the \"new\" sci-fi novel\u00a0Pioneer by Robert Zimmerman. While Bob is best known as a space historian and journalist, he produced this work of fiction back in 1982 when he was just starting out on his writing career. He set it aside after he had\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "History"","block_context":{"text":"History","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=hobbyspace&l=am2&o=1&a=1568581181","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6005,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6005","url_meta":{"origin":3633,"position":3},"title":"Space Pioneer – A game created by real world astronauts, scientists & architects.","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign opened today for the game Space Pioneer, which was created by a team that includes three cosmonauts: \u00a0Space Pioneer by Space Enigma Studios \u2014 Kickstarter Our team consists of world famous astronauts, engineers, designers, programmers, artists and architects who allow us to construct a game that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Contests and Games"","block_context":{"text":"Contests and Games","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":184,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=184","url_meta":{"origin":3633,"position":4},"title":"Space pioneer artists","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"An essay tribute to Chesley Bonestell and other artists whose works have highlighted the publications and headquarters of the British Interplanetary Society in London: From the BIS Archives: Farscapes of the Imagination \u2013 the Pioneer Artists - BIS. The Exploration of Mars by Chesley Bonestell","rel":"","context":"In "Space Arts"","block_context":{"text":"Space Arts","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=20"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6319,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6319","url_meta":{"origin":3633,"position":5},"title":"Space Pioneer – updates and new video","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I wrote here previously\u00a0about the Kickstarter campaign to fund development of the game\u00a0Space Pioneer by Space Enigma Studios. Since then they have posted\u00a0Updates\u00a0on the project and they have a new video as well:","rel":"","context":"In "Contests and Games"","block_context":{"text":"Contests and Games","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3635,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions\/3635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}