The 3 volume Dennis Jenkins shuttle book is due in February. Available at the Specialty Press web site.
Thanks for the update! Would have pre-ordered, but shipping would have been 120 dollars... Hoping for Amazon listing.
Wow, fantastic to see this will be published soon (and just before my birthday too ... ).
Here is what Dennis writes in his preface to "Developing an Icon":QuoteWhen I wrote the mini-edition of what became this book in 1988, the response was overwhelmingly positive, leading me to write the first of the expanded hardcover editions. By the time I finished in 1991, however, Aerofax was largely out of business and other publishers said there would never be a market for more than 500 copies of a book on space shuttle; all declined to publish it. Believing there was a story to be told, I published the book myself. Roger D. Launius, then chief historian at NASA, took notice and coached me on how to make the book more authoritative; the improvement was evident in later editions. By late 2016, more than 100,000 copies of three editions had passed.This is more than an update to the previous edition; it is a complete rewrite and will obviously be the last.
When I wrote the mini-edition of what became this book in 1988, the response was overwhelmingly positive, leading me to write the first of the expanded hardcover editions. By the time I finished in 1991, however, Aerofax was largely out of business and other publishers said there would never be a market for more than 500 copies of a book on space shuttle; all declined to publish it. Believing there was a story to be told, I published the book myself. Roger D. Launius, then chief historian at NASA, took notice and coached me on how to make the book more authoritative; the improvement was evident in later editions. By late 2016, more than 100,000 copies of three editions had passed.This is more than an update to the previous edition; it is a complete rewrite and will obviously be the last.
Any further word on this book? I pre-ordered it from Amazon, which at the time said publication would be February 15, 2017. Now it says "shipping in one to two months".
Amazon is far more expensive than direct.