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...
February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
... life on Earth and nearly extinguished it. Early in Earth’s history it is believed our planet was struck by an object between...Earth in 1770 was the closest cometary near-miss in recorded history - it closest point of approach was 0.0146 AU from ...
