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August 1, 2022

REVIEW: Space Oddities by Joe Cuhaj

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsastronaut / NASA / non-fiction / Roscosmos / space flight5 Comments

Nothing captivates the human imagination like the vast unknowns of space. Ancient petroglyphs present renderings of the heavens, proof that we have been gazing up at the stars with wonder for thousands of years. Since then, mankind has systematically expanded our cosmic possibilities. What were once flights of fancy and ... more >

November 18, 2021

REVIEW: Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsanthropology / colonization / fantasy/scifi / novella / science / sorcerer / space flight2 Comments

In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe. Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the ... more >

July 21, 2021

REVIEW: Across the Airless Wilds by Earl Swift

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsastronaut / immigrants / inventors / NASA / non-fiction / science / space flight2 Comments

8:36 P.M. EST, December 12, 1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt braked to a stop alongside Nansen Crater, keenly aware that they were far, far from home. They had flown nearly a quarter-million miles to the man in the moon’s left eye, landed at its edge, and ... more >

April 4, 2018

REVIEW: Rocket Men by Robert Kurson

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsastronaut / NASA / non-fiction / space flight / space travel7 Comments

Recommended Read

The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind’s historic first mission to the Moon, from the New York Times bestselling author of Shadow Divers. By August 1968, the American space program was in danger of failing in its two most important objectives: to ... more >

May 16, 2016

REVIEW: Earth Bound by Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1960s / engineer / Fly Me to the Moon series / Historical / mathematics / space flight7 Comments

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Houston, Texas, 1961 The race to the moon is on, and engineer Eugene Parsons has two enemies: danger and distraction. Nothing is more distracting than his attraction to the brilliant, beautiful computer scientist on his team, but he’s determined to overcome it since he needs her to help America win. ... more >

December 4, 2015

REVIEW: Go, Flight! by Rick Houston and J. Milt Heflin

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsastronaut / NASA / non-fiction / science / space flight3 Comments

At first glance, it looks like just another auditorium in just another government building. But among the talented men (and later women) who worked in mission control, the room located on the third floor of Building 30—at what is now Johnson Space Center—would become known by many as “The Cathedral.” ... more >

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