NASA's Scientist-Astronauts (Springer Praxis Books / ...
 Excellent account of scientist-astronauts in 1960/70s NASA: This is an excellent piece of research from Colin Burgess and David Shayler, building on their reputations for producing high quality works about the space program. This book is a must for [... more]
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The Story of Space Station Mir
space station operations: The focus of the book is on Soviet/Russian space station operations in general: the first third of the book covers operations on board the Salyut stations. On the downside, there is little mention of station module design and [... more]
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Space Systems Failures: Disasters and Rescues of ...
Good Survey: Good at identifying launch failure events and summarizing history, but lacks details on the actual failure modes. Tough area to cover since much of the info is classified, proprietary or lost deep in corporate files. A priceless [... more]
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Russia's Cosmonauts: Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training ...
The Story of an Unknown Part of Space History: One of the great changes that has come about since the collapse of the Soviet Union is access to formerly secret facilities and operations. For this book the Russians allowed unprecedented access to the Yuri [... more]
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Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration (Springer Praxis ...
The other side of the race: Once again a "Harvey book" which fulfills the expectations one has come to expect when looking at the by-line. This time the theme is the stamina and heroics you had to exhibit in Soviet Russia when planning and [... more]
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Cassini at Saturn: Huygens Results (Springer Praxis ...
Not for the average reader: It may be true that this book contains a lot of information about Saturn and its moons and all the other findings in the outer solar system, however, the writing style is quite complicated for someone that isn't thoroughly [... more]
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US Spacesuits (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)
Spacesuit Information: For a book on a techncial subject, it appears to be well laid out and easy to read. I liked that it took the time to explain the basics surrounding spacesuits. Finding accurate information on spacesuit, their development, use and [... more]
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Space Shuttle Columbia: Her Missions and Crews (Springer ...
Detailed but not neccessarily riveting: If you want a definitive summary of the missions, crew and experiments undertaken by Columbia, this is a good reference to have. The trouble is that, after describing the excitement of the first flight, and the [... more]
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The First Men on the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 ...
Same Story base, new pictures and information: My review is similar, in part, to the first reviewee from California. I had seen this one listed but did not purchase it immediatley. I read and collect books on the Mercury to Apollo space program but I had [... more]
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Praxis Manned Spaceflight Log 1961-2006 (Springer Praxis ...
A very great book: I was really impressed by the Praxis Manned Spaceflight Log 1961-2006. Simply the best !!! A book with many details of each manned space mission since the Gagarin's flight. Highly recommended. More than 820 pages rich with any type of [... more]
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The Moon: Resources, Future Development and Settlement ...
Best introduction to lunar development: This book is the best up-to-date introduction to lunar development, focusing on the primary technical infrastructure necessary to expand from an initial base via In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) to global [... more]
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Planet Mars: Story of Another World (Springer Praxis ...
Mars Tour...: For a college Astronomy class, I had to give a presentation on Mars--something besides the general knowledge factoids that you can dig up off the Internet. So, I went in search of a satisfying Mars book that went beyond the basics, but didn' [... more]
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