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Comment on Celebrating Apollo40 by In an octopus’s garden | It Doesn't Have To Be Right...

In an octopus’s garden | It Doesn't Have To Be Right... — Fri, 10 May 2013 09:20:32 +0000

[…] In 2010, I learnt it was the fiftieth anniversary of the first descent by human beings to Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the ocean on the planet, some 11,000 metres below the surface of the Pacific. Lieutenant Don Walsh, USN, and Jacques Piccard, son of Auguste Piccard, had reached the ocean-bottom in January 1960 in the bathyscaphe Trieste (which had also been designed and built by Auguste Piccard). I was surprised to discover that very little had been made of the two men’s achievement – in fact, I could find only a single book on the topic, Seven Miles Down, which I wrote about here. Contrast this with the huge numbers of books published in 2009 to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing (such as these). […]

Comment on One Small Step, PB Kerr by Book porn: Philip Kerr « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…

Book porn: Philip Kerr « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:32:29 +0000

[...] Kerr has also written children’s books under the name PB Kerr – a series of seven Arabian fantasy novels, Children of the Lamp, and a YA novel about a boy who accompanies two chimpanzees to the Moon, One Small Step. I reviewed the latter here. [...]

Comment on Neil Armstrong RIP by Kidmat Eden

Kidmat Eden — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 03:54:37 +0000

I join these sentiments. Maybe Cliff and Ian you’d like what I wrote about him too, at:
http://kidmat-edenblog.com/2012/09/01/reflections-on-a-moonwalkers-passing-or-im-ok-to-go/

Comment on The Old Man of the Sea of Dreams by Genesis of Apollo |

Genesis of Apollo | — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:24:27 +0000

[...] story. So I chopped it down to 1,000 words – and it worked much better. I then posted it on my blog in October 2009. (I posted the same story on this blog last [...]

Comment on Carrying the Fire, Michael Collins by Genesis of Apollo |

Genesis of Apollo | — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:24:23 +0000

[...] – First Man (Neil Armstrong) by James Hansen, Return to Earth by Buzz Aldrin, and Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins. I also wanted to write a short story about the Apollo missions, which I’d [...]

Comment on Return to Earth, Buzz Aldrin by Genesis of Apollo |

Genesis of Apollo | — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:24:21 +0000

[...] the (auto)biographies of the three crew-members – First Man (Neil Armstrong) by James Hansen, Return to Earth by Buzz Aldrin, and Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins. I also wanted to write a short story [...]

Comment on First Man, James Hansen by Genesis of Apollo |

Genesis of Apollo | — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:24:18 +0000

[...] Space Books blog by reading and reviewing the (auto)biographies of the three crew-members – First Man (Neil Armstrong) by James Hansen, Return to Earth by Buzz Aldrin, and Carrying the Fire by Michael [...]

Comment on The Pilgrim Project, Hank Searls by Whoosh |

Whoosh | — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:15:09 +0000

[...] what this is?” Roosa remembers now. “I heard about it back at Edwards. Project Pilgrim. A one-way shot to the [...]

Comment on Carrying the Fire, Michael Collins by Ten favourite books read during the lifetime of this blog « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:36:44 +0000

[...] 6 Carrying the Fire, Michael Collins (1974) Three years ago was the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, and in order to celebrate it I decided to read the (auto)biographies of the three astronauts involved – Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins – and review the books on my Space Books blog. I also read and reviewed several other books about the mission. Carrying the Fire not only proved to be the best of the three (auto)biographies, but also the best astronaut autobiography I have read to date. Collins was always characterised as the most introspective and erudite of the three “amiable strangers”, so it’s no real surprise that Carrying the Fire is so readable and so well-written. It also feels far less self-aggrandising than is typically the case for astronaut autobiographies – the nature of the job in those days demanded the sort of people who have big egos. Recently, of course, we lost one of the Apollo 11 crew, Neil Armstrong, on whom the most attention regarding the lunar missions has focused, despite his retreat from public life after Apollo 11. My review of Carrying the Fire is here. [...]

Comment on First Man, James Hansen by First on the Moon, Armstrong, Aldrin & Collins « A Space About Books About Space

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:17:57 +0000

[...] Space About Books About Space « First Man, James Hansen One Small Step, PB Kerr [...]