Launcher base complete
While I'm on the subject of NASA, the LUT launcher base is now complete. The hold-down arms are done, and...
Flight: My Life in Mission Control – Christopher Kraft
Nope - not done with NASA just yet. Someone recently recommended this as a good book on NASA, and boy,...
Moonshot: The Inside Story of Mankind’s Greatest Adventure – Dan Parry
This is an audiobook I got a few years back, and listened to again recently while on my current NASA...
Rocket Ranch: The Nuts and Bolts of the Apollo Moon Program at Kennedy Space Center – Jonathan H. Ward
Ward's second book focuses on the equipment at KSC that launched the Apollo spacecraft to the moon. Again, his focus...
Countdown to a Moon Launch: Preparing Apollo for Its Historic Journey – Jonathan H. Ward
This book is one of two that came out of the author's extensive interviews with the former personnel of Kennedy...
Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula – David J. Skal
As I have previously posted, I am something of a Bram Stoker completist. I am not interested in the author...
Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent – John Reader
I bought this thinking Collin might read it - and accidentally got the audiobook version as well, so I started...
A Man on the Moon, 3 Volumes: One Giant Leap; The Odyssey Continues; Lunar Explorers – Andrew Chaikin
I read a paperback of this years ago - it's the book on which From the Earth to the Moon...
The Time Traveler’s Handbook: 19 Experiences from the Eruption of Vesuvius to Woodstock – Johnny Acton & David Goldblatt
This was a really interesting game, and I recommend it highly. The idea is that a company that provides time...
The Dig – John Preston
This is a fictional account of the Sutton Hoo excavations in England the summer of 1939, as war was imminent....