S·P·A·C·E
TOURISM: Economic and
Technical Evaluation of Suborbital
S·P·A·C·E Flight for Tourism by
Robert A. Goehlich, 2002, 124p., published by Der Andere Verlag,
Osnabrueck, Soft Cover, ISBN 3-936231-36-2, $20.00
LAUNCH OUT
(2nd Edition),
by Philip R. Harris, 2003, 506p., Infinity Publishing, Soft
Cover, ISBN 0-7414-1487-2, $29.95
LIVING
AND WORKING IN SPACE: Human
Behavior, Culture and Organization
(2nd Edition), by Philip R. Harris, 1996, 442p., a volume from the
Wiler/Praxis Series in Space Science & Technology, Hard Cover, ISBN
0-471-96255-4, $45.00; Soft Cover, ISBN 0-471-96256-2, $30.00
SPACEFARING: The Human Dimension, by Albert A.
Harrison, 2001, 342p., The University of California Press, Soft Cover,
ISBN 0-520-23677-7, $19.95
The
stars have always called us, but only for the past forty years
or
so have we been able to respond by traveling in space. The book
explores
the human side of spaceflight: why people are willing to brave danger
and
hardship to go into space; how human culture has shaped past and
present
missions; and the effects of space travel on health and well-being. A
comprehensive
and authoritative treatment of its subject, this book combines
statistical
studies, rich case histories, and gripping anecdotal detail as it
investigates
the phenomenon of humans in space--from the earliest spaceflights to
the
missions of tomorrow. Drawing from a strong research base in the
behavioral
sciences, Harrison covers such topics as habitability, crew selection
and
training, coping with stress, group dynamics, accidents, and more. In
addition
to taking a close look at spacefarers themselves, Spacefaring reviews
the
broad organizational and political contexts that shape human progress
toward
the heavens. With the ongoing construction of the nternational
Space
Station, the human journey to the stars continues, and this book will
surely
help guide the way.
FUNDAMENTALS
OF AEROSPACE MEDICINE 3rd Edition, by Roy L. Dehart,
Jeffrey R. Davis, 2002, 720p., Published by Lippincott Williams
& Wilkins, Hard Cover, ISBN 0781728983, $159.00
Modern
flight places many stressors on those who fly, both physiologically and
psychologically. This text covers the essential areas of
otolaryngology,
ophthalmology, cardiology, neurology, and psychiatry/psychology so that
professionals can recognize and treat problems, as well as discuss
issues
with other specialists. Chapters are extensively revised to keep up
with
the developments and significant advances in aerospace medicine over
the
last decade. New chapters include those on Thermal Stress,
International
Aviation Medicine and Management of Human Resources in Air Transport
Operations.
WERNHER
VON BRAUN: Crusader for Space,
by Ernst Stuhlinger and Frederick I. Ordway, III, Combined Edition, An
Illustrated Memoir/A Biographical Memoir, 1996, 560p., Krieger
Publishing
Company, Soft Cover $55.00, ISBN 0-89464-980-9
An
Illustrated Memoir is a unique collection of photographs spanning
von
Braun’s life from his childhood through Peenemünde, White Sands,
Redstone
and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center to his final years in Washington,
D.C. When von Braun left NASA, John Noble Wilford wrote in The
New York Times, “Von Braun’s Departure Marks the End of an Era”
(May
27, 1972).
A
Biographical Memoir describes the fascinating antecedents to the
Apollo
drama. It is based on close personal and professional relationships
between
von Braun and the authors (34 years for Stuhlinger, 25 years for
Ordway).
Extracts from interviews, verbal and written comments, and
recollections
throughout the volume give dimension and stature to this man who, more
than any other, symbolizes the Space Age.
NASA: A
History of the U.S. Civil Space Program,
by Roger D. Launius, 1994, 286p., Krieger Publishing Company, Hard
Cover
$16.50, ISBN 0-89464-878-0
When
future generations review the history of the 20th century, they will
undoubtedly
judge humanity’s movement into space, with both machines and people, as
one of its seminal developments. Even at this juncture, the complex
nature
of spaceflight and the activity that it has engendered on the part of
many
peoples and governments make the U.S. civil space program a significant
area of investigation. People from all avenues of experience and levels
of education share an interest in the drama of spaceflight. This book
is
the most up-to-date synthesis available of the American civil space
program.
It describes the history of this effort from its earliest origins to
the
early 1990s and offers a powerful analysis of the space program that
merges
political, economic, technological, scientific, and foreign affairs
into
a meaningful whole.
HOW
WE GOT TO THE MOON, The Story of the German Space Pioneers,
by Marsha Freeman, 1993, 378p., published by 21st Century Science
Associates,
Soft Cover $15.00, ISBN 0-9628134-1-9
This
book tells us about the German pioneers of space and their contribution
to the U.S. effort to get to the Moon and beyond. It shows how
pioneering
research, conducted under great visionaries, such as Hermann Oberth,
Wernher
von Braun, and Krafft Ehricke got the space program to progress to such
a high degree to allow us to go to the Moon and do all of the things in
space which we are doing today. Their story encompasses some five
decades,
from the backyard experiments of the 1920s and early 1930s, through the
launch of Apollo 11 to the Moon in 1969. The book shows how these
pioneers
persevered through all the hardships such as following World War I and
during and after World War II including a 15-year detour working for
the
U.S. Army.
The
author has researched the existing literature and conducted numerous
interviews,
including some with German “Rocket Team” members to aid in making the
information
in the book as accurate as possible.
THE
DREAM MACHINES: An Illustrated History of the Spaceship in Art,
Science
and Literature,
by Ron Miller, 1993, 744p., Krieger Publishing Company, Hard Cover
$112.50,
ISBN 0-89464-039-9
Foreword
by Arthur C. Clarke. The book is in two-colors throughout, and has
nearly
1,000 photos and illustrations, including 16 pages in full color. There
are 250,000 words of text listing events chronologically, illustrated
with
scale drawings of hundreds of spacecraft, both real and fictional. The
artwork, drawings, and photos include unique images from rare books,
novels
and films, exclusive drawings of Soviet spacecraft and unpublished
photos
from NASA archives. The book is divided into six parts: (1) the
archaeology
of the spaceship (360 B.C. to 1783 A.D.), (2) the invention of the
spaceship
(1784-1899), (3) the experimenters (1900-1938), (4) World War II, (5)
the
golden age of the spaceship (1946-1960), (6) the dawn of the space age
(1961 to the present). A bibliography and index are included.
BLUEPRINT
FOR SPACE, Science Fiction to Science Fact ,
Ed. by Frederick I. Ordway III, Randy Liebermann, 1992, 224p.,
Smithsonian
Institution Press, Hard Cover $39.95, ISBN 1-56098-072-9; Soft Cover $24.95,
Sale Price $12.95, ISBN 1-56098-073-7
Profusely
illustrated, Blueprint for Space covers flights of the imagination from
ancient cave pictographs to the Apollo 11 Moon landing, indelibly
engraved
on the public mind since 1969. By the late 19th century, fantasies of
space
travel had seized the public imagination. Science fiction, beginning
with
Jules Verne’s lunar tales, gained a widespread acceptance and, with the
1912 publication of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Under the Moons of Mars,
reached a zenith of popularity sustained through the 1940s by pulp
magazines.
During the same period, scientific speculation about space and modern
notions
of spacecraft were taking shape in the prototypical forms of spaceships
and submarines.
It
was in the early 20th century that space fiction began the transition
to
space fact. Strides in astronomy spurred scientists’ desire to explore
the reaches of the universe while, in more practical terms, the rocket,
used for centuries for military and entertainment purposes, began to be
pointed tentatively toward space. America and the world reached the
golden
age of space travel after World War II, as technological advances
and successive Apollo missions thrust notions of space travel beyond
science
fiction into the realm of advertising, television, movies, magazines,
and
consumer goods.
Blueprint
for Space moves as well beyond the Apollo era and into the future.
With contributors ranging from astronauts to historians, science
fiction
writers to scientists, the book seeks to stir again in the public mind
our age-old yearnings toward the limitless skies.
BOOKS
ON AEROSPACE/ASTRONAUTICS/SPACE
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ALL
WE DID WAS FLY TO THE MOON, by the Astronauts as told to Dick
Lattimer,
Foreword by James A. Michener, 1983, Second Printing 1988, 160p, The
Whispering
Eagle Press, ISBN 0-9611228-0-3, Soft Cover $9.95
This
remarkable book with foreword by James A. Michener, author of the
bestseller Space,
recounts the story leading up to the Apollo landing on the Moon. It is
richly illustrated in color and full of mementos. A bestseller in
aerospace museums.
COMMERCIAL
UTILIZATION OF SPACE, by Michael Harr and Rajiv Kohli, 1990, 168p.,
published by Battelle Press, ISBN 0-935470-46-8, Hard Cover $44.50,
Sale Price $31.00
Few
works are available on commercial utilization of space with emphasis on
microgravity and remote sensing. This is one of those rare books. The
authors
focus on basic economic, technical, infrastructural, market, political
and legal requirements. Scenarios for the successful
commercialization
of space are presented and how to access government and university
research.
An essential reference for space planners, managers and engineers in
this
field.
KEEPING
THE DREAM ALIVE, Putting NASA and America Back into Space,
by Michael Simon, 1987, 224p., Earth Space Operations, ISBN
0-915391-28-7,
Soft Cover $11.95, Sale Price $8.95
This
excellent book deals with the Shuttle, the Space Station and NASA’s
long-range
objectives. It brings out the budgetary restrictions and lack of
foresight
which could cause future problems. Space commercialization and how it
can
be financed are discussed. Space colonization, the author considers,
must
have broad-based support including government, and it must be the
result
of solid and practical ideas. The book has received excellent reviews
as
one of the best books on space to have appeared in years.
MAN
IN FLIGHT: Biomedical Achievements in Aerospace (1929-1979), by
Eloise
Engle and Arnold Lott, 1979, 424p, a publication of the Aerospace
Medical
Association and a supplement to the AAS History Series, ISBN
0-915268-24-8,
Hard Cover $20.00
This
excellent volume in the field of aerospace biology and medicine is of
interest
to the specialist, the historian, aerospace engineers and scientists as
well as to the layperson.
It
marks the 50th anniversary of the Aerospace Medical Association and
covers
aeromedical research since the earliest balloon flights. Each type of
vehicle
(balloon, fixed wing aircraft, and spacecraft) as well as special test
equipment is described chronologically with emphasis on scientific
thought
and experiments of each era, and their relevance to achieving safe
spaceflight
and landing men on the Moon. Background information about aerospace
pioneers,
their research, thoughts, and influence on others is well integrated
and
presented in a lucid style. Other main topics included are:
physiological
problems of spaceflight, establishment of selection standards, medical
schools and research facilities, the use of animals in space medicine
research,
and accounts of self experiments by physicians, scientists, and pilots.
MANAGING
QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY IN AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE, Defense Systems
Management College, Dec., 1988, 183p binder 81/2x11, $60.00
This
book is the result of a five-phase, six-year study which identifies
challenges
facing aerospace and defense contractors, strategies to improve quality
and productivity, and techniques of measurement and continuous
improvement.
The study was funded by the Defense Systems Management College with
cost
sharing from Virginia Tech, the University of Maryland, LTV Aircraft
Products
Group, Price Waterhouse and Westinghouse. Major topics are presented in
seven parts: (1) what the aerospace and defense contractor of the
present
faces, (2) what the aerospace and defense contractor of the future must
look like, (3) how to create plans for quality and productivity
improvement,
(4) strategies and techniques to improve quality and productivity, (5)
theory, approaches, and techniques, (6) improvement to the “nth power”,
(7) making quality and productivity a way of life. Extensively
illustrated.
Bibliography.
THE
NEW RACE FOR SPACE, The U.S. and Russia Leap to the Challenge
for
Unlimited Rewards, by James E. Oberg, 1984, 224p., a Stackpole
publication,
ISBN 0-8117-2177-0, Soft Cover $14.95
This
volume, by a renowned authority on space, deals with many of the latest
concepts and activities in both the U.S. and Soviet space programs.
They
include the Salyut and Soyuz programs as well as the U.S. space shuttle
developments. Among other things the author discusses astronauts vs.
robots,
tethered space operations, flights to other worlds, exploring the
Asteroid
Belt, and spaceships of the future. Foreword by Ben Bova,
President,
National Space Institute. Index.
PLANET
EARTH, A View from Space,
by D. James Baker, 1990, 190p, Harvard University Press, ISBN
0-674-67071-X,
Soft Cover $12.95
A
concise
up-to-date overview of ongoing international research efforts for
predicting
global climate change. Includes remote sensing from space,, satellites,
their instrumentation, the gathering of information on Earth-Sun
interaction,
land vegetation patterns, ocean color, the atmosphere, polar regions,
shape
and motion of the Earth’s crust, the Earth’s gravitational field.
Focuses
on Mission to Planet Earth. Examines long-term future problems and
proposes
a global operational system. Well illustrated. References. Glossary.
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE 1979 AUSTRALIAN ASTRONAUTICS CONVENTION, - a publication
of
the Astronautical Society of Western Australia, 1981, Part I,
176p, Soft Cover $20.00; Part II, 168p, Soft Cover $20.00; Two
parts
ISBN 0-9596726-5-6
Part
I includes space/communications, the ESA program and applications, the
Kettering Group, Japanese and USSR space activities, Skylab review and
debris, solar cells, galactochemistry, gravitational radiation
(terrestrial
and spacecraft experiments) international cooperation in space
investigation.
Part
II is devoted to satellites: communications, meteorological,
navigational
(NNSS, Navstar), educational satellites, TV presentation of Landsat
pictures,
remote sensing including computer analysis of satellite imagery,
Australian
Landsat Station and NASA laser tracking stations in Australia.
(Proceedings
of the 1975 Australian Astronautics Convention, 1977, 208p, ISBN
0-9596726-1-3,
Soft Cover $18, still available)
ROCKETS
INTO SPACE, by Frank Winter, 1990, 170p, Harvard University Press,
ISBN 0-674-77660-7, Hard Cover $24.95; ISBN 0-674-77661-5, Soft Cover
$12.95
This
volume by the curator for space sciences at the National Air and Space
Museum presents a concise account of the history of rocketry, the
founders
of space flight theory, the pioneers and experimenters in rocketry, the
V2 rocket, rockets and the Space Age, modern rockets, space shuttles,
and
the future of rocketry. References. Many illustrations. Frank Winter is
the author of many articles on rocketry and space.
SOVIET
MILITARY STRATEGY IN SPACE by Nicholas L. Johnson, 1987, 288p, Hard
Cover $34.95, Sale Price $21.95 (ISBN
0-7106-0449-1).
Published by Jane’s.
This
volume offers the best unclassified coverage of Soviet military
programs
in space including the emerging strategic potential of space, Soviet
presence,
military and political applications of Soviet satellites, Soviet
offensive
satellite systems, strategic defensive systems, and Soviet strategy for
war in space. The actual text of pertinent international space
treaties,
amendments, statements, and resolutions is appended. Index and
glossary.
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S-P-A-C-E
Tourism, A
Representative
Program Model for Developing Space Tourism by Robert A. Goehlich, Soft
Cover, ISBN
3-936846-29-4, $35.00
THE
HUNDRED BILLION
NEW RUBLE TRIP, A Russian Landing On Mars by
Saunders B. Kramer Sr., Soft Cover, ISBN 1-40109525-9, $23.00
MARS, A Tour
of the Human Imagination by Eric S. Rabkin, 2005, 232p., ISBN
0-275-98719-1, $49.95
LIFTOFF:
The Aerospace Century by Tyler Reeb with a
special foreword by Barbara Erickson London., 2003,
180p., published by South Coast Publishing, Inc., Hard Cover with
Dustjacket, ISBN 0-9746131-0-X, $25.00
SPACE
STATIONS: Base Camps to the Stars,
by Roger Lanius, 2003,
274p., published by Smithsonian Institution Press, Hard Cover with
Dustjacket $40.00 ISBN 1-58834-120-8
ASTROBIOLOGY,
by
Monica Grady,
2001, 96p., published by Smithsonian
Institution Press, 96p. Soft
Cover, ISBN
1-56098-849-5, $17.00 
CHALLENGES
OF HUMAN
SPACE EXPLORATION, by
Marsha Freeman, 2000, 272p., Soft Cover, ISBN 1-85233-201-8, $45.00
LEAVING EARTH, Space Stations, Rival
Superpowers, and the Quest for Interplanetary Travel (Signed
Copy), by Robert Zimmerman, from Joseph Henry Press, 2003, 544p., Hard
Cover with Dustjacket, ISBN 0-309-08548-9, $27.95
