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Satellite Evolution – Book Reviews

Welcome to our book review section. We try and review as many books as possible which are specifically aimed at the professional satellite and space industry. Our reviews are in-depth but as the section expands sometimes books will appear that we haven’t had time to review but are there for your information. If you have any suggestions for books that should be included here then please let us know by clicking the link below:

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Satellite-Evolution.com reviews books covering the space and satellite industry. Please contact: info@dsairpublications.com for mailing details. Feedback from authors and publishers is especially welcome. Alongside the original review, we will publish any factual corrections and are happy to add a link to the author’s site.

All the following space related books have been reviewed by Mark Williamson, Space Technology Consultant

50 Years in Space: what we thought then…what we know now, David A Hardy & Patrick Moore, Sterling Publishing, 2006, 112pp, £12.95, ISBN 978-1-904332-60-2 [softback]
A Dictionary of the Space Age, Paul Dickson, Johns Hopkins, 2009, 260pp, £26.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-9115-1 [hardback]
Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft, Jay Gallentine, Univ Nebraska Press, 2009, 500p, £24.99/$24.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-2200-5 [hardback]
America in Space: NASA`s First Fifty Years, Steven J Dick et al (Eds), Harry N Abrams Inc, 2007, 351pp, $50.00 £25.95, ISBN 978-08109-9373-0 [hardback]
America’s Future in Space: aligning the civil space program with national needs, National Research Council, National Academies Press, 2009, 89pp, £19.99, ISBN 978-0-309-14036-2 [softback]
An Introduction to Space Weather, Mark Moldwin, Cambridge Univ Press, 2008, 134pp, £29.99/$55.00, ISBN 978-0-521-71112-8 [softback]
Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962, Megan Prelinger, Blast Books, 2010, 240pp, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-922233-35-9 [softback]
Apollo 11 Owners’ Workshop Manual, Christopher Riley & Phil Dolling, Haynes, 2009, 196pp, £17.99, ISBN 978-1-84425-683-9 [hardback]
Apollo 11: The Moon Landing Logbook, Carlton Books, Andrea Pinnington, 2009, 30pp, £11.99/$19.95, ISBN 978-1-84732-329-3 [hardback]
Architecture for Astronauts: An Activity-based Approach, Sandra Hauplik-Meusburger, Springer-Praxis, 2011, 330pp, £90.00/$129.00, ISBN 978-3-7091-0666-2 [hardback]
Around the World in 84 Days: the authorized biography of Skylab Astronaut Jerry Carr, David Shayler, Apogee Books, 2008, 272pp, $31.95, ISBN 978-1-894959-40-7 [softback]
Assessment of Planetary Protection Requirements for Mars Sample Return Missions, National Research Council, National Academies Press, 2009, 80pp, £14.99, ISBN 978-0-309-13073-8 [softback]
Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space, De Witt Douglas Kilgore, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, 294pp, $21.95, £14.50, ISBN 0-8122-1847-7 [softback]
Astronautics A Historical Perspective of Mankind`s Efforts to Conquer the Cosmos, Ted Spitzmiller, CG Publishing Inc (www.apogeebooks.com), Book 1: 2006, 232pp, £12.95, US$24.95, CDN$25.95 ISBN 9781-894959-63-6 [softback]; Book 2: 2007, 496pp, £13.95, US$25.95, CDN$26.95 ISBN 9781-894959-66-7 [softback]
Aurora 7: NASA Mission Reports, Steve Whitfield, Apogee Books, 2011, 152pp, £17.95, ISBN 978-1-926592-21-3 [softback]
Canada’s Fifty Years in Space: The COSPAR Anniversary, Gordon Shepherd & Agnes Kruchio, Apogee Books, 2008, 280pp, $26.95, ISBN 978-1-894959-72-8 [softback]
Columbia Accident Investigation Report (Volume 1 August 2003), Robert Godwin (Ed), CG Publishing Inc (www.apogeebooks.com), 2003, 261pp, £19.95, US$25.95, CDN$33.95 ISBN 1-894959-06-X [softback]
Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich and the Space Race, Wayne Biddle, W W Norton, 2009, 220pp, $25.95/£18.99, ISBN 978-0-393-05910-6 [hardback]
Defining NASA: The Historical Debate Over the Agency’s Mission, W. D. Kay, State University of New York Press, 2005, 247pp, US$24.95 ISBN 0-7914-6382-6 [softback]
Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight, David A Mindell, The MIT Press, 2008, 359pp, £22.95, ISBN 978-0-262-13497-2 [hardback]
Digital SLR Astrophotography, Michael A Covington, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 219pp, £21.99, $45.00, ISBN 978-0-521-700818 [softback]
Earth Observations from Space: the first 50 years of scientific achievements, Committee on Scientific Accomplishments of Earth Observations from Space, National Research Council, National Academies Press, 2008, 129pp, £24.00, ISBN 978-0-309-11095-2 [softback]
Earthrise: How Man First Saw The Earth, Robert Poole, Yale Univ Press, 2008, 236pp, £18.99, ISBN 978-0-300-13766-8 [hardback]
Eleven Seconds into the Unknown: A History of the Hyper-X Program, Curtis Peebles, AIAA, 2011, 342pp, $33.95, ISBN 978-1-60086-776-7 [softback]
Encyclopedia of the Solar System, second edition, Lucy-Ann McFadden, Paul R Wiessman & Torrence V Johnson (Eds), Elsevier (Academic Press), 2007, 966pp, US$99.95; £57.99 ISBN 0-12-088589-1 [hardback]
Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the US Space Program, Howard E McCurdy, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, 173pp, $36.00, £24.00 ISBN 0-8018-6720-7 [hardback]
Floating to Space: The Airship to Orbit Program, John M Powell, Apogee Books, 2008, 204pp, $27.95, ISBN 978-1-894959-73-5 [softback]
Foothold in the Heavens: The Seventies, Ben Evans, Springer-Praxis, 2010, 533pp, £40.99/$44.95, ISBN 978-1-4419-6341-3 [softback]
Footprints in the Dust: The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969-1975, Colin Burgess (Ed), Nebraska, 2010, 480pp, £29.99/$34.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-2665-4 [hardback]
Footprints, Jay Lake & Eric T Reynolds (Eds), Hadley Rille Books, 2009, 288pp, $15.95, ISBN 978-0-9819243-9-7 [softback]
Gemini 12 – The NASA Mission Reports, Robert Godwin (Ed), CG Publishing Inc (www.apogeebooks.com), 2003, 264pp, £15.95, US$19.95, CDN$27.95 ISBN 1-896522-82-3 [softback]
Gemini 7 – The NASA Mission Reports, Robert Godwin (Ed), CG Publishing Inc (www.apogeebooks.com), 2002, 208pp, £15.95, US$17.95, CDN$24.95 ISBN 1-896522-82-3 [softback]
Go For Launch An Illustrated History of Cape Canaveral, Joel W Powell with Art LeBrun, CG Publishing Inc (www.apogeebooks.com), 2006, 320pp, £18.95, US$29.95, CDN$34.95 ISBN 1-894959-43-4 [softback]
Handbook of Space Technology, Wilfried Ley et al (Eds), AIAA, 2008, 882pp, $139.95, ISBN 978-1-60086-701-9 [hardback]
Heavenly Ambitions: America’s Quest to Dominate Space, Joan Johnson-Freese, Univ Pennsylvania Press, 2009, 178pp, $29.95/£19.50, ISBN 978-0-8122-4169-3 [hardback]
High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945-1999, Erik M Conway, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, 369pp, $52.00, £33.50 ISBN 0-8018-8067-X [hardback]
History of Rocketry and Astronautics, Kerrie Dougherty and Donald C Elder (Eds), AAS History Series Vol 27, Univelt for American Astronautical Society, 2007, 403pp, US$70, 978-0-87703-536-7 [softback]
How Apollo Flew to the Moon, W David Woods, Springer, 2008, 412pp, £20.00, $29.95, Eur24.95, ISBN 978-0-387-71675-6 [softback]
Humans in Outer Space – Interdisciplinary Odysseys, Luca Codignola & Kai-Uwe Schrogl (Eds), Springer/ESPI, 2009, 246pp, euro109.95/$159.00/£87.00, ISBN 978-3-211-87464-6 [hardback]
Interplanetary: A history of the British Interplanetary Society, Bob Parkinson (Ed), BIS, 2008, 100pp, £20.00 (Members £15.00), ISBN 978-0-9506597-1-8 [softback]
Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965, Francis French & Colin Burgess, Univ Nebraska Press, 2007, 407pp, £15.99, ISBN 978-0-8032-2639-5 [softback]
ISScapades The Crippling of America’s Space Program, Donald A Beattie, CG Publishing Inc (www.apogeebooks.com), 2007, 228pp, £12.95, US$23.95, CDN$27.95 ISBN 978-1-894959-59-9 [softback]
It’s Only Rocket Science: An Introduction in Plain English, Lucy Rogers, Springer, 2008, 350pp, £19.00, ISBN 978-0-387-75377-5 [softback]
James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles, Abigail Foerstner, University of Iowa Press, 2007, 322pp, $37.50, ISBN 978-0-87745-999-6 [hardback]
Keep Watching the Skies, W Patrick McCray, Princeton Univ Press, 2008, 308pp, £17.95, ISBN 978-0-691-12854-2 [hardback]
Krafft Ehricke’s Extraterrestrial Imperative, Marsha Freeman, Apogee Books, 2009, 302pp, £18.95, ISBN 978-1-894959-91-9 [softback]
License to Orbit: The Future of Commercial Space Travel, Joseph Pelton & Peter Marshall, Apogee Books, 2009, 197pp, $23.95, ISBN 978-1-894959-98-8 [softback]
Lightcraft Flight Handbook LTI-20, Leik N Myrabo & John S Lewis, Apogee Books, 2009, 284pp, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-926592-03-9 [softback]
Magnificent Desolation, Buzz Aldrin with Ken Abraham, Bloomsbury, 2009, 326pp, £16.99, ISBN 978-1-4088-0402-5 [hardback]
Mars 3D: A Rover’s-Eye View of the Red Planet, Jim Bell, Sterling, 2009, 148pp, £14.99, ISBN 978-1-4027-5620-7 [hardback]
Mars: A Cosmic Stepping Stone, Kevin Nolan, Praxis Publishing, 2008, 379pp, £24.50, ISBN 978-0-387-34164-4 [hardback]
Mars: an introduction to its interior, surface and atmosphere, Nadine G Barlow, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 264pp, $90.00, ISBN 978-0-521-85226-5 [hardback]
Mars: From Myth and Mystery to Recent Discoveries, Markus Hotakainen, Springer, 2008, 253pp, £19.99, ISBN 978-0-387-76507-5 [hardback]
Mission to the Moon, Alan Dyer, Templar Publishing, 2008, 80pp, £12.99, ISBN 978-1-84011-983-1 [hardback]
Missions to the Moon: The Complete Story of Man’s Greatest Adventure, Rod Pyle, Carlton Books, 2009, 63pp, £30.00, ISBN 978-1-84732-252-4 [hardback]
My Life on Mars: The Beagle 2 Diaries, Colin Pillinger, The British Interplanetary Society, 2010, 357pp, £16.50 (£15 BIS members), ISBN 978-0-9506597-3-2 [hardback]
One Giant Leap: Apollo 11 Remembered, Piers Bizony, Zenith Press, 2009, 159pp, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-7603-3710-3 [hardback]
One Small Step: Celebrating the First Men on the Moon, Jerry Stone, Templar Publishing, 2009, 24pp, £14.99, ISBN 978-1-84011-988-6 [hardback]
Out of this World: The New Field of Space Architecture, A Scott Howe & Brent Sherwood (Eds), AIAA, 2009, 417pp, $119.95, ISBN 978-1-56347-982-3 [hardback]
Packing for Mars: the curious science of life in space, Mary Roach, Oneworld, 2010, 293pp, £12.99, ISBN 978-1-85168-780-0 [hardback]
Paving the Way for Apollo 11, David M Harland, Springer-Praxis, 2009, 472pp, $39.95/£24.95, ISBN 978-0-387-68131-3 [softback]
Pocket Space Guide: Hubble Space Telescope, Steve Whitfield, Apogee Books, 2006, 96pp, $9.95 £6.95, ISBN 978-1-894959-38-4 [softback]
Pocket Space Guide: Project Apollo – Exploring the Moon, Robert Godwin, Apogee Books, 2006, 96pp, $9.95 £6.95, ISBN 978-1-894959-37-X [softback]
Pocket Space Guide: Project Apollo – The Test Program, Robert Godwin, Apogee Books, 2005, 96pp, $9.95 £6.95, ISBN 978-1-894959-36-1 [softback]
Pocket Space Guide: Project Constellation – Moon, Mars & Beyond, Tim McElyea, Apogee Books, 2007, 96pp, $9.95 £6.95, ISBN 978-1-894959-49-0 [softback]
Pocket Space Guide: Project Gemini, Steve Whitfield, Apogee Books, 2007, 96pp, $9.95 £6.95, ISBN 978-1-894959-54-4 [softback]
Pocket Space Guide: Project Mercury, Steve Whitfield, Apogee Books, 2007, 96pp, $9.95 £6.95, ISBN 978-1-894959-53-7 [softback]
Pocket Space Guide: Russian Spacecraft, Robert Godwin, Apogee Books, 2006, 96pp, $9.95 £6.95, ISBN 978-1-894959-39-6 [softback]
Pocket Space Guide: Space Shuttle Fact Archive, Robert Godwin, Apogee Books, 2007, 96pp, $9.95 £6.95, ISBN 978-1-894959-52-0 [softback]
Pop-Up Facts SPACE, Peter Bond, Templar Publishing, 2008, 14pp, £12.99, ISBN 978-1-84011-793-6 [hardback]
Prepare for Launch: The Astronaut Training Process, Erik Seedhouse, Springer-Praxis, 2010, 246pp, £31.99/$34.95, ISBN 978-1-4419-1349-4 [softback]
Project Mars A Technical Tale, Wernher von Braun, CG Publishing Inc (www.apogeebooks.com), 2006, 280pp, £7.95, US$12.95, CDN$14.95 ISBN 978-0-9738203-3-1 [softback]
Psychology of Space Exploration: Contemporary Research in Historical Perspective, Douglas A Vakoch, NASA SP-2011-4411 (History Series), 2011, 254pp, $37.80, ISBN 978-0-16-088608-9 [softback]
Radioisotope Power Systems: an imperative for maintaining US Leadership in Space Exploration, National Research Council, National Academies Press, 2009, 52pp, £13.99, ISBN 978-0-309-13857-4 [softback]
Red Cosmos: K E Tsiolkovskii, Grandfather of Soviet Rocketry, James T Andrews, Texas A&M, 2009, 147pp, $49.00, ISBN 978-1-60344-117-9 [hardback]
Reference Guide to the International Space Station, Gary Kitmacher (Ed), CG Publishing Inc (www.apogeebooks.com), 2006, 104pp, £10.95, US$21.95, CDN$23.95 ISBN 1-894959-34-5 [softback]
Return to Luna: Stories from the Lunar Settlements, Eric T Reynolds (Ed), Hadley Rille Books, 2008, 265pp, $15.95, ISBN 978-0-9819243-2-8 [softback]
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut, Mike Mullane, Scribner, 2006, 367pp, US$26.00, ISBN 978-0-7432-7682-5 [hardback]
Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America’s First Women in Space Program, Margaret A Weitekamp, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, 232pp, $25.00, £16.50 ISBN 0-8018-8394-6 [softback]
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon, Craig Nelson, John Murray, 2009, 404pp, £20.00, ISBN 978-0-7195-6948-7 [hardback]
Rockets and Missiles: the life story of a technology, A. Bowdoin van Riper, Johns Hopkins, 2004, 176pp, £13.50, ISBN 978-0-8018-8792-5 [softback]
Rockets and People Vols 1-3, Boris Chertok, NASA History Division (SP-2005-4110; SP-2006-4110; SP-2009-4110), 401pp; 669pp; 769pp, $55/volume, ISBN 978-0-16-073239-5; 076672-9; 081733-5 [hardback]
Safety Design for Space Systems, Gary Eugene Musgrave et al (Eds), Elsevier, 2009, 919pp, $200.00, ISBN 978-0-7506-8580-1 [hardback]
Satcom Guide for the Technically Challenged, Tony Radford, Paradise Datacom, 2010, 110pp, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-9665451-3-5 [softback]
Saturn I/IB: the complete manufacturing and test records, Alan Lawrie, Apogee Books, 2008, 192pp, $26.95, ISBN 978-1-894959-85-8 [softback]
Scale Spacecraft Modelling, Mat Irvine, The Crowood Press, 2006, 208pp, £16.99/$29.95, ISBN 978-1-86126-774-6 [softback]
Selling Peace: Inside the Soviet Conspiracy that Transformed the US Space Program, Jeffrey Manber, Apogee Books, 2009, 332pp, £17.95, ISBN 978-1-926592-08-4 [softback]
Servicing the Hubble Space Telescope, Dennis R Jenkins & Jorge R Frank, Specialty Press, 2009, 120pp, $19.95, ISBN 978-1-58007-138-3 [softback]
Sex in Space, Laura S Woodmansee, CG Publishing Inc (www.apogeebooks.com), 2006, 136pp, £9.95, US$17.95, CDN$19.95 ISBN 1-894959-44-2 [softback]
Small Satellites: Past, Present and Future, H Helvajian & S W Janson, AIAA, 2008, 876pp, $149.95, ISBN 978-1-884989-22-3 [hardback]
SOFTWARE REVIEW Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars, Robert Markley et al (Eds), University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001 (Pentium 3, 300MHz, 64MB RAM preferred), $45.00, £29.50, ISBN 0-8122-3620-3 [DVD-ROM]
Space Conquest: The Complete History of Manned Spaceflight, Francis Dreer, Haynes, 2009, 208pp, £25.00/$49.95, ISBN 978-1-84425-573-3 [hardback]
Space Enterprise: Living and Working Offworld in the 21st Century, Philip Robert Harris, Springer-Praxis, 2009, 616pp, £20.50, ISBN 978-0-387-77639-2 [softback]
Space Exploration 2008, David M Harland & Brian Harvey, Springer, 2008, 183pp, £19.50, $29.95, Eur24.95, ISBN 978-0-387-71667-1 [softback]
Space Exploration and Humanity: A Historical Encyclopedia (2 volumes), Stephen B Johnson (general editor), ABC-CLIO, 2010, 1316pp, $180, ISBN 978-1-85109-514-8 [hardback]
Space Policy in the Twenty-First Century, W Henry Lambright (Ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, 283pp, $52.00, £33.50 ISBN 0-8018-7068-2 [hardback]
Space Rescue: Ensuring the Safety of Manned Spaceflight, David J Shayler, Springer-Praxis, 2009, 356pp, £24.95, ISBN 978-0-387-69905-9 [softback]
Space Safety Regulations and Standards, Joseph N Pelton & Ram S Jakhu (Eds), Elsevier, 2010, 495pp, $175.00, ISBN 978-1-85617-752-8 [hardback]
Space Vehicle Design Criteria Archive 1964-1979, AIAA, 2006, CD-ROM, $74.95 (Members $54.95), ISBN 978-1-56347-840-6 [CD-ROM]
Space, Andrew Chaikin, Carlton Books, 2008, 270pp , £25.00, ISBN 978-1-84732-077-3 [hardback]
Space: A Journey of Discovery, Volker Kratzenberg-Annies, Harry N Abrams Inc (for ESA), 2006, 276pp, £29.95., ISBN 978-0810957411 [hardback]
Spacecraft Collision Probability, F Kenneth Chan, AIAA, 2008, 323pp, $79.95, ISBN 978-1-8844989-18-6 [hardback]
Spacecraft Formation Flying: dynamics, control and navigation, Kyle T Alfriend et al, Elsevier, 2010, 382pp, $117.00, ISBN 978-0-7506-8533-7 [hardback]
SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History, Dan Linehan, Zenith Press, 2008, 160pp, £25.00, $34.95, ISBN 978-0-760-33188-0 [hardback]
Spies in the Sky: Surveillance Satellites in War and Peace, Pat Norris, Springer-Praxis, 2008, 220pp, £19.50, ISBN 978-0-387-71672-5 [softback]
Success Stories in Satellite Systems, D K Sachdev (Ed), AIAA, 2009, 414pp, $69.95, ISBN 978-1-56347-966-3 [hardback]
Superstructures in Space – From Satellites to Space Stations, Michael H Gorn, Merrell, 2008, 191pp, £24.95/US$39.95, ISBN 978-1-8589-4417-3 [hardback]
The First Men on the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11, David M Harland, Springer, 2007, 378pp, $39.95, ISBN 978-0-387-341767 [softback]
The Geology of Mars: evidence from Earth-based analogs, Mary Chapman (Ed), Cambridge University Press, 2007, 460pp, $135.00, ISBN 978-0-521-83292-2 [hardback]
The Human Archaeology of Space: lunar, planetary and interstellar relics of exploration, P J Capelotti, McFarland, 2010, 189pp, $45.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-5892-2 [softback]
The International Atlas of Lunar Exploration, Philip J Stooke, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 440pp, £95.00/$160.00, ISBN 978-0-521-81930-5 [hardback]
The International Space Station: Building for the Future, John E Catchpole, Springer, 2008, 389pp, £21.99, $39.95, Eur26.95, ISBN 978-0-387-78144-0 [softback]
The International Space Station: Commercial Utilisation from a European Perspective, Franz D von der Dunk & Marcel Brus (Eds), Martinus Nijhoff, 2006, 267pp, US$163.00 Eur 125.00, ISBN 9004152563 [hardback]
The Lunar Exploration Scrapbook: A Pictorial History of Lunar Vehicles, Robert Godwin, Apogee Books, 2007, 224pp, £16.95 $36.95, ISBN 978-1-894959-69-8 [softback]
The Making of History’s Greatest Star Map, Michael Perryman, Springer, 2010, 282pp, £24.99, $29.95, ISBN 978-3-642-11601-8 [hardback]
The New Space Race: China vs. the United States, Erik Seedhouse, Springer-Praxis, 2010, 250pp, £24.99/$34.95, ISBN 978-1-4419-0879-7 [softback]
The Nuclear Rocket: Making Our Planet Green, Peaceful and Prosperous, James Dewar with Robert Bussard, Apogee Books, 2009, 216pp, $21.95, ISBN 978-1-894959-99-5 [softback]
The Origins and Technology of the Advanced Extravehicular Space Suit, Gary L Harris, AAS History Series Vol 24, Univelt for American Astronautical Society, 2001, 542pp, US$60, 87703-482-06 [softback]
The Real Mars, Michael Hanlon, Constable, 2004, 250pp, £25.00 ISBN 1-84119-637-1 [hardback]
The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American and European Space Programs, Stephen B Johnson, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, 290pp, $25.00, £16.50 ISBN 8018-8542-6 [softback]
The Space Environment and its Effects on Space Systems, Vincent L Pisacane, AIAA, 2008, 421pp, $94.95, ISBN 978-1-56347-926-7 [hardback]
The Space Shuttle Program: How NASA Lost its Way, R Michael Gordon, McFarland, 2008, 346pp, £38.50, ISBN 978-0-7864-3434-3 [softback]
The Space Station Decision, Howard E McCurdy, Johns Hopkins, 2007, 286pp, £16.50, ISBN 0-8018-8749-6 [softback]
The Story of Manned Space Stations: An Introduction, Philip Baker, Springer-Praxis, 2007, 170pp, £19.00, ISBN 978-0-387-30775-6 [softback]
The Universe in A Mirror, Robert Zimmerman, Princeton Univ Press, 2008, 287pp, £17.95/$29.95, ISBN 978-0-691-13297-6 [hardback]
To the End of the Solar System: the story of the nuclear rocket (second edition), James A Dewar, Apogee Books, 2007, 292pp, $26.95, ISBN 978-1-894959-68-1 [softback]
Tourists in Space – A Practical Guide, Erik Seedhouse, Springer, 2008, 314pp, £19.50, $34.95, Eur26.95, ISBN 978-0-387-74643-2 [softback]
Trailblazing Mars: NASA’s Next Giant Leap, Pat Duggins, UPF, 2010, 243pp, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-3518-5 [hardback]
Truth, Lies and O-Rings, Allan J McDonald with James R Hansen, UPF, 2009, 626pp, $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-3326-6 [hardback]
Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War, Michael J Neufeld, Knopf/NASM, 2007, 587, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-307-26292-9 [hardback]
Voyager: Seeking New Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery, Stephen J Pyne, Viking/Penguin, 2010, 444pp, £29.95, ISBN 978-1-670-02183-3 [hardback]
Voyages of Discovery: The Missions of the Space Shuttle Discovery, Robert A Adamcik, Apogee Prime, 2011, 316pp, £18.95, ISBN 978-1-926837-13-0 [softback]
Yearbook on Space Policy 2006/2007: New Impetus for Europe, Kai-Uwe Schrogl et al (Eds), Springer, 2008, 330pp, £90.50, $149.00, Eur119.95, ISBN 978-3-211-78922-3 [hardback]