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2013/05/20 20:46
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For those in the exoplanetary science community who have closely followed the health of NASA’s Kepler spacecraft in recent months, the announcement around midday on Wednesday couldn’t have seemed like...
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2013/05/20 20:46
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National Geographic, 2013 hardcover, 272 pp., illus. ISBN 978-1-4262-1017-4 US$26.00 Buzz Aldrin earned his place in the history books nearly 44 years ago by landing on the Moon with Neil...
2013/05/13 17:46
2013/05/13 17:46
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Advocates of human missions to Mars often embody an unusual combination of impatience and persistence. Impatience because they want to go to Mars now, or at least as close to now as possible: within a...
2013/05/13 17:46
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Dream Access Books, 2012 hardcover, 405 pp. ISBN 978-0-615-45576-1 US$25.95 Thrillers typically require the reader to be willing to suspend their disbelief to at least some degree, in order to...
2013/05/06 15:46
2013/05/06 15:46
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Princeton Univ. Press, 2013 hardcover, 352 pp., illus. ISBN 978-0-691-12224-3 US$29.95 There is a particular fascination in the publishing industry—and thus, presumably, among readers—for...
2013/05/06 15:46
2013/05/06 15:46
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While it was nearly two months late, the NASA 2014 budget proposal released on April 10 didn’t contain a lot of surprises. In broad strokes, the 2014 budget proposal is similar to the 2013 budget...
2013/04/29 14:47
2013/04/29 14:47
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Today’s the day. Maybe. After years of anticipation—and years of delays—Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle is widely expected to attempt its first powered flight on Monday. That flight...
2013/04/29 14:46
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Wiler-IEEE Press, 2012 softcover, 368 pp., illus. ISBN 978-1-118-46242-3 US$54.95 When people discuss the high cost of spaceflight, their typical focus is on launch: if only it cost less to put...
2013/04/29 14:46
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The threat of an asteroid or comet impact has often fallen squarely on the boundary of science fact and science fiction. Because virtually no one in human history has experienced a catastrophic impact...
2013/04/23 10:46
2013/04/23 10:46
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Sometimes it’s remarkable that any rocket gets off the ground. There’s first and foremost the myriad of technical challenges of the rocket itself, a complex array of components that have to be in...
2013/04/23 10:46
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... seems like something out of science fiction.” An opening line like that causes many science writers to cringe: trite, overused, and lazy. Nonetheless, it seems applicable to the announcement in...
2013/04/23 10:46
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Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2012 softcover, 276 pp., illus. ISBN 978-0-8166-7957-7 US$29.95 This week marks the 23rd anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, perhaps the world’s most...