November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... to the stars. They mark an achievement unparalleled in human history and they embrace, and poignantly echo, our continued efforts to... the private sector unique opportunities and challenges to make history. And just as the Apollo project was built on...
16 July 2018
Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond
... these competing depictions to “unpack the meaning of the spaceflight enterprise”. It is replete with the trappings of an academic history (50-plus pages of chapter notes and index) and, at the same time, extremely readable – no mean feat in itself...
19 July 2018
The Long Space Age
..., asteroid mining and Elon Musk! – offered an alternative model. In contrast, according to its blurb, this economics-based history of the Space Age “clearly shows that the current prominence of private-sector American spaceflight is the re-emergence...
08 April 2019
Willy Ley: Prophet of the Space Age
... and 1950s. To those who have studied a little space history, Ley is probably best known for his oft-reprinted 1949 book...-white photos) and was written more for the space history community than the general reader. When one historian reviewer describes...
