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New Books of Interest
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Apollo, Challenger, Columbia:
The Decline of the Space Program
A Study in Organizational
Communication
Phillip K. Tompkins - 2005
Amazon: US
UK
"Tompkins (emeritus organizational
communication, U. of Colorado-Boulder) traces changes
in internal and external communications at the US National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from its
beginnings just after World War II through the breakup
of the Columbia space shuttle in February 2003."
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Lost in Space : The Fall of
NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age
Greg Klerkx - 2004
Amazon: US
UK
"In Lost in Space, Greg Klerkx
argues that ever since the last human left the moon
in 1972, the Space Age has been stuck in the wrong orbit—and
NASA, the organization that once fueled the world’s
space-faring hopes, has been largely responsible for
keeping it there. With the loss of the space shuttle
Columbia, there has never been a more critical time
for anyone interested in the future of space exploration
to ask two questions: Whatever happened to the Space
Age? And how do we get it back?"
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New Moon Rising
Frank, Jr. Sietzen, Keith L. Cowing- 2004
Amazon: US
UK
"The book is a detailed history
of the evolution of the U.S. civil space program from
the February 1, 2003 space shuttle Columbia accident
to the release of the Presidential Commission report
on Moon, Mars, and Beyond on June 2, 2004. During these
extraordinary 16 months, nearly every element of NASA’s
leadership was placed under a political microscope,
with the result that the space agency set upon a new
course of reorganization, resulting with President George
W. Bush’s announcement of an entirely new space policy
for the U.S." - excerpt from book description at
Amazon
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Making Space Happen:
Private Space Ventures and the Visionaries Behind Them
Paula Berinstein - 2002
Amazon: US
UK
Interviews with numerous leaders in
the private space movement.
Read the HobbySpace
interview with Ms. Berinstein
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Other Recent Additions
- Made in
Space: Space Investor's Guide To The Next Revolution
Kenneth Schweitzer - 2003, Amazon:
US
UK
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Activism,
Politics, &
Controversies
Why go to space? What impeds
the further development of space? What are the space
issues that get people agitated?
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Made
in Space:
Space Investor's Guide To The Next Revolution
Kenneth Schweitzer - 2003
Amazon:
US
UK
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The
Commercial Space Age: Conquering Space Through Commerce
Andrew M. Thorpe - 2003
Amazon:
US
UK
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Apollo,
Challenger, Columbia:
The Decline of the Space Program
A Study in Organizational
Communication
Phillip K. Tompkins - 2005
Amazon: US
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Space:
The Free-Market Frontier
Ed Hudgins - 2002
Amazon: US
UK
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Decision
: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
Diane Vaughan - 1997
Amazon: US
UK
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Making
Space Happen:
Private Space Ventures
and the Visionaries Behind Them
Paula Berinstein - 2002
Amazon: US
UK
Interviews with numerous leaders in the private
space movement.
Read the HobbySpace
interview with Ms. Berinstein
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Case
for Mars
R. Zubrin &
R. Wagner - 1997
Amazon: US
UK
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The
Case for Space : Who Benefits from Explorations of the Last
Frontier?
Paul S. Hardersen - 1996
Amazon: US
UK
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The
Case for Mars V
American Astronautical Society - 1997
Penelope J. Boston (Editor)
Amazon: US
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Free
Space! : Real Alternatives for Reaching Outer Space
B. Alexander Howerton - 1995
Amazon: US
UK
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Spaceflight
and the Myth of Presidential Leadership
R. D. Launius H.E. McCurdy, G. E. McCurdy (editors)
1997
Amazon: US
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The
Heavens and the Earth : A Political History of the Space Age
Walter A. McDougall - 1997
Amazon: US
UK
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NASA:
New Millennium Problems and Solutions
Don A Nelson
- 2001
Amazon:
US
UK
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Halfway
to Anywhere: Achieving America's Destiny in Space
G. Harry Stine - 1996
Amazon:
US
UK
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New
Moon Rising
Frank, Jr. Sietzen, Keith L. Cowing- 2004
Amazon: US
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Space
Business & Investing
What business are making
money on space? What businesses and technologies does
telecommunications really involve? What can be
learned from the management of successful space projects?
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Space
: The Next Business Frontier
Lou Dobbs, H. P. Newquist - 2001
Amazon: US
UK
Lou Dobbs, famous businees
news anchor on CNN and co-founder of Space.com, reviews current
space businesses and prospects for future space industries. |
The
Orbital Express Project of Bristol Aerospace and
Microsat Launch Systems, Inc.
Geoffrey V. Hughes - 1996
Amazon: US
UK
Geoffrey Hughes, who later worked
at Rotary Rocket (perhaps he will pen a book about that project
as well), wrote about this project in Britain to build a small
launch vehicle:
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Space:
The Free-Market Frontier
Ed Hudgins - 2002
Amazon: US
UK
Making Space Happen:
Private Space Ventures and the Visionaries Behind
Them
Paula Berinstein - 2002
Amazon: US
UK
Interviews with numerous leaders
in the private space movement.
Read the HobbySpace
interview with Ms. Berinstein
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Telecommunication |
Silicon
Sky: How One Small Start-Up Went Over the Top to Beat the Big
Boys Into Satellite Heaven
Gary Dorsey - 1999
Amazon: US
UK
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The
Essential Guide to Telecommunications
Annabel Z. Dodd - 1999
Amazon: US
UK
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The
Cable and Satellite Television Industries
P. R. Parsons et al - 1998
Amazon: US
UK
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Introduction
to Satellite Communication
B. R. Elbert - 1999
Amazon: US
UK
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Communication
Satellites : Power Politics in Space
Larry F. Martinez - 1985
Amazon: US
UK
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Ground
Networks: |
Vsat
Networks
Gerard Maral - 1995
Amazon: US
UK
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Vsats
: Very Small Aperture Terminals
John Everett (Ed) - 1993
Amazon: US
UK
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Project
Management: |
Managing
Martians
Donna Shirley - 1998
Amazon: US
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High
Velocity Leadership : The Mars Pathfinder Approach to Faster,
Better, Cheaper
B. K. Muirhead, et al
Amazon: US
UK
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