August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
... corrected our orbit.” Since it is impossible to determine distances in space due to lack of any reference points or landmarks, an observer...to the orbiting station, astronaut Bill Pogue went on two space walks. During one of them, on 22 November 1973,...
25 September 2020
Apollo’s Legacy - Perspectives on the Moon Landings
... to the genre. However, this book is by NASA’s chief historian so we should cut him some slack. The main surprise is ... covering this sort of material can be written by a serious space historian shows that the Apollo story has truly come of age. While...
26 February 2018
Abandoned in Place – Preserving America’s Space History
...a useful index. Full disclosure: as a part-time space historian and photographer, I liked this book even before I ...of levels to a broad spectrum of readers from those interested in space technology, in particular its history, to those who will view ...
08 January 2023
GPS
Ceruzzi, another space historian, has perhaps understandably taken a historical approach to his overview of the Global Positioning System (GPS), which means ...
11 October 2018
Apollo Program Development Plan
...facsimile of NASA’s plan for Apollo dated 15 January 1965, which comprises 17 sections and a distribution list. Space historians will consider this a fascinating reference document. Its relatively early date is reflected in some of the diagrams which...
08 January 2023
Spaceflight
... at the notion of presenting the topic of ‘spaceflight’ in 200 small format pages and, knowing Neufeld as a professional space historian, it is little short of amazing that he managed with only 11 pages of chapter notes and a two-page bibliography...
