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Re: Spaceflight Book Thread
« Reply #400 on: 08/08/2018 03:21 pm »
I was looking to get George P. Sutton’s Rocket Propulsion Elements textbook. But I believe someone suggested the 7th edition but that’s been awhile ago. Anyone have any experience with the latest version or should I try to find the 7th version?

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Re: Spaceflight Book Thread
« Reply #401 on: 09/17/2018 11:41 am »
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military by Neil deGrasse Tyson

https://www.amazon.com/Accessory-War-Unspoken-Alliance-Astrophysics/dp/B07DHSML2R/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537044029&sr=8-1&keywords=accessory+to+war


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Re: Spaceflight Book Thread
« Reply #402 on: 10/18/2018 02:42 pm »
Is there any good books on the Voyager missions? I bought one book on this topic a while ago but the author kept comparing space exploration to naval expeditions which got tiring after a while.
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Re: Spaceflight Book Thread
« Reply #403 on: 10/22/2018 04:43 pm »
Jim Bell's book (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L9AXW4G/)is so-so but at least better than the horrendous Gallantine account (https://www.amazon.com/Ambassadors-Earth-Pioneering-Explorations-Spaceflight/dp/0803222203).

I am still awaiting a really great account of the Voyagers. If anybody knows one please tell!

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Re: Spaceflight Book Thread
« Reply #404 on: 11/23/2018 02:58 pm »
"The Astronaut Maker" is $1.99 on Amazon Kindle today in the US.
link to Amazon
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Re: Spaceflight Book Thread
« Reply #405 on: 02/08/2019 11:29 am »
US Spacecraft Projects #5
US Spacecraft Projects #05 is now available (see HERE for the entire series). Issue #05 includes:

Project HORIZON Lunar Lander: a late 1950’s US Army concept for a manned Lunar lander
Lockheed-Martin Mars Ascent/Descent Vehicle: A very recent concept for a future manned Mars vehicle
JPL Interstellar Precursor: a 970’s design for a space probe to interstellar space
Lockheed Modular Rotating Space Station: a truly gigantic design circa 1970
Lockheed Payload Carrier: an early 1960’s spaceplane for space station logistics
Martin-Marietta Winged NIMF: a nuclear powered “hopper”
Lockheed CL-414: a capsule for Man in Space Soonest
NASA HAVOC: High Altitude Venus Operational Concept, a 2015 project for manned exploration of the atmosphere of Venus

http://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/?p=3368

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Re: Spaceflight Book Thread
« Reply #406 on: 04/27/2019 08:32 pm »
Blue Streak: Britain’s Medium Range Ballistic Missile

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A history of the development of the Blue Streak ballistic missile from initial conception to cancellation in 1960.

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Re: Spaceflight Book Thread
« Reply #407 on: 12/16/2022 08:07 pm »
Just discovered this excellent thread.

I'd like to recommend SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History by Dan Linehan

http://www.amazon.com/SpaceShipOne-Illustrated-History-Dan-Linehan/dp/B005CDVI9W

Both the pictures and text are excellent and contain material I've not seen published elsewhere (such as the detailed cockpit layout). It is written for a general readership but still includes a reasonable amount of detail (I suspect as much as Scaled/Paul Allen were prepared to have published).
I have a copy of the book SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History that I bought back in 2008, and while I've enjoyed reading about the powered and unpowered flights made by SpaceShipOne, given that the last SS1 flight broke the previous suborbital spaceplane altitude record achieved by the X-15 in 1963 by reaching 367,500 feet, the discussion in the first chapter of this book provides new details of the genesis of SpaceShipOne, and shows how bold Scaled Composites was in terms of creating from scratch an all-new spaceplane concept with its own money without the need for funding from NASA, because the notion of privately funded manned spaceflight prior to the late 1990s and early 2000s existed only in the realm of science fiction.

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Re: Spaceflight Book Thread
« Reply #408 on: 02/12/2023 09:09 am »
I just stumbled on this book on amazon while looking for something else. I'd never heard of it before. Has anyone read it and is it any good?

Splashdown: NASA, the Navy, & Space Flight Recovery
by Don Blair (2010)

"This is the first-ever publication detailing the Navy’s role in manned spacecraft recovery from 1961 to 1975, from Alan Shepherd’s initial suborbital mission to the Apollo-Soyuz flight, which inaugurated the first space collaboration between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Splashdown: NASA, the Navy, and Space Flight Recovery takes the reader through a detailed explanation of how recovery forces on land, sea, and in the air were deployed across the globe to be trained for any and all emergencies and eventualities. This book gives concise histories of all prime recovery ships as well as back-up ships in both manned and unmanned missions, with every ship’s history followed by a retelling of their space missions."

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Splashdown-Nasa-Space-Flight-Recovery/dp/1630264237/
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Re: Spaceflight Book Thread
« Reply #409 on: 02/12/2023 09:21 pm »
I have a book called "Voyager The Story of a Space Mission" by Margaret Poynter and Arthur L. Lane. printed 1981 by Atheneum if you are interested for more info.

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Re: Spaceflight Book Thread
« Reply #410 on: 08/27/2023 03:04 am »

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Re: Spaceflight Book Thread
« Reply #411 on: 08/27/2023 03:28 am »
I just posted the following new thread regarding the book Single Stage to Orbit: Politics, Space Technology, and the Quest for Reusable Rocketry:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=59452.0

Although this book was published in 2003, it is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of SSTO spaceplane development because it chronicles the ambitions by the US to develop SSTO vehicles and the technical pitfalls and other factors that led to the downfall of the X-30/NASP as well as the X-33 and VentureStar programs.

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Jacques :-)

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Re: Spaceflight Book Thread
« Reply #413 on: 08/28/2023 12:20 pm »
https://twitter.com/Thom_astro/status/1696083160025477344?s=20

Translated from French by google:
I took time this year to write the story of my missions, starting from the beginning: childhood and dreams of space, the whole journey, the efforts and the sacrifices to get to the launch pad . Painstaking work but thanks to
@Ed_Flammarion
 I am proud to have found the words to, I hope, take you behind the scenes of this adventure. While waiting for the next mission… See you on October 18!

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