01 October 2019
Finding our Place in the Solar System
... than the average physics tome. The book will be of interest to historians of astronomy and students of the philosophy of science, but it could be read by anyone with a reasonable level of scientific literacy. It is illustrated, though not profusely...
30 March 2021
The Value of Science in Space Exploration
... discover it, appropriate it and make sense of it in their own way. This is effectively what the author, a philosophy academic, is attempting with this book. His “overarching argument”, he writes, “is that space science is uniquely epistemically and...
22 June 2021
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars
... analogue mission itself, relevant aspects of the space industry, her personal life and memories, and the philosophy of exploration.
03 October 2021
Test Gods - Tragedy and Triumph in the New Space Race
... books, there is also an autobiographical element: the author’s father was a distinguished combat pilot and his parenting philosophy involved a number of “rites of passage”. The author admits that it took him more than a decade to realise that...