- Follow Reading Freely on WordPress.com
Reading Now
-
Recent Posts
Categories
Blogroll
- Seeking a Little Truth
- Inspire Virtue
- Classics Considered
- With Freedom, Books, Flowers, and the Moon
- The Inquisitive Biologist
- Relevant Obscurity
- Trek Lit Reviews
- Stoic Meditations
- A Pilgrim in Narnia
- Mudpuddle Soup
- Gently Mad
- The Frugal Chariot
- The Social Porcupine
- Gifted w/Thought
- Lydia Schoch
- The Classics Club
- Classical Carousel
- Fanda Classiclit
- Reading In Between the Life
Archives
Meta
Tag Archives: human space flight
Fighting for Space
Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight© 2020 Amy Shira Teitel448 pages When the age of flight arrived, women were as eager to take to the skies as men. Fighting for Space is a … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, aviation, human space flight, women
3 Comments
Handprints on Hubble
Handprints on Hubble(c) 2019 Kathryn D. Sullivan304 pages Handprints on Hubble is a unique astronaut memoir, in part because Dr. Sullivan is a scientist first and an astronaut second. Longing to explore, she began her academic life in oceanography before realizing … Continue reading
The Apollo Murders
The Apollo Murders(c) 2021 Chris Hadfield 480 pages It’s 1973, and the Apollo program is nearly at its end. One more mission is planned — but it won’t be the mission executed. Instead, the all-military crew of Apollo 18 will … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, science fiction
Tagged alt-history, human space flight, science fiction
3 Comments
The Burning Blue
The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA’s Challenger Disaster(c) 2021 Kevin Cook288 pages So fickle is the human mind that even Apollo could not keep the public terribly excited for very long after the first moon … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged 1980s, disaster, history, human space flight, space shuttle, women
Leave a comment
Bringing Columbia Home
Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Shuttle and Her Crew(c) 2018 Michael Leinbach and Johnthan Ward400 pages On February 1st, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated in the skies above Texas and Louisiana, some sixteen minutes from … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged 2000s, aviation, disaster, history, human space flight, human spaceflight, space shuttle
Leave a comment
Soviets…..in Space
Soviets in Space: The People of the USSR and the Race to the Moon© 2021 Colin Turbett232 pages In 1959, Soviet Russia shocked the world, and especially its rival the United States, by launching an artificial satellite into orbit. Sputnik-I’s … Continue reading
Back to Earth
Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet and our Mission to Protect It© 2021 Nicola Stott304 pages A staple of astronaut memoirs is the attempt to communicate the near-religious experience of seeing the Earth … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged biography, civic activism, climate change, human space flight, ISS, women
Leave a comment
Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars
Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars© 2021 Eileen Collins314 pages Eileen Collins was obsessed with flying. Maybe it was an unusual preoccupation for a girl, but her parents – despite their struggles with mental illness and alcoholism – always … Continue reading
Into the Black
Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia © 2016 Rowland White480 pages As the Apollo missions neared the completion of their goal, NASA looked ahead and charted a bold new course … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged 1960s, 1970s, aviation, human space flight, space shuttle, technology
6 Comments
A year in space: some quotes and something completely different
Scott Kelly had his brother send him a gorilla suit so he could pull pranks on his coworkers. Pranks look…a little different on the International Space Station. And now, some quotes. The space shuttle, fully fueled with cryogenic liquid, creaked … Continue reading