Category Archives: Space History

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, Space, Space History

Another Book Review

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Mark Lardas had a review a couple weeks ago in the Galveston Daily News, but it was behind a paywall. But I just learned that he reposted it at Ricochet. It’s an appropriate time to note it, given that today is the 47th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire, and tomorrow is the 28th anniversary of the Challenger disaster.

[Update late afternoon]

Here’s another brief (partial) review, in comments at the same web site. It’s the first one to discuss the quality, as opposed to the content of the book.

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Safe Is Not An Option

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Jeff Foust has a review of the book (in the context of last week’s release of the 2013 ASAP report, which I’ve been meaning to comment on), over at The Space Review.

[Update a while later]

And of course the server at The Space Review would go down the day that he reviews my book. I must have crashed it with my link. 😉

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Space, Space History

Last Week’s Forgotten Anniversary

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Jeff Foust has a round up of the scant commentary on the 10th anniversary of Bush’s VSE announcement, including a link to my USA Today piece.

And no, the problem with Constellation was not that it was underfunded. It simply cost more than the planned budgets. Mike hoped that once it was a fait accompli, he’d just get the extra money. It didn’t work out that well.

[Update in the afternoon]

I haven’t read it in detail, but Stephen C. Smith has a lengthy history.