Books on spaceflight

[FleshJeb]

2 hours ago, benzman said:

Riding Rockets by Mike Mullane 

Riding Rockets was highly recommended by Mary Roach in Packing For Mars. Which is also a fun book, but less about spaceflight.

[Wallygator]

Digital apollo

The story of the apollo guidance computer. An amazing read!

[DerekL1963]

On 4/8/2017 at 0:54 PM, surge said:

Unfortunately the book was filled with political garbage instead of the technical information I was after

0.o

[WinkAllKerb'']

On 08/04/2017 at 9:54 PM, surge said:

profiled by the CIA

yep cia attempted to profile the pretender once, still they're not sure wich profile to pick in the end ^^ thoose peops are weirds ... ^^

if you want a good johnny deep profiling, try "rhum express" ^^ it's full of political garbage as well and splosion with a touch of romance for the audience :3 :3 :3 ^^

Edited April 10, 2017 by WinkAllKerb''

[Dafni]

I enjoyed Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy so much, I started to name my Kerbals after the protagonists in the books.

Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars. They come highly recommended. Best reads I had in quite a while.

[mikegarrison]

11 hours ago, Dafni said:

I enjoyed Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy so much, I started to name my Kerbals after the protagonists in the books.

Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars. They come highly recommended. Best reads I had in quite a while.

I hope Saxifrage Kerman was a scientist, Nadia Kerman was an engineer, and John Boone Kerman was a pilot.

[Dafni]

4 hours ago, mikegarrison said:

I hope Saxifrage Kerman was a scientist, Nadia Kerman was an engineer, and John Boone Kerman was a pilot.

But of course! And each one gets a colleague too. Sax gets Ann, Nadia gets Arkady, and Boone gets Maya. It's a nice head canon, gives the missions some personality. The last names work good for craft, like Russell Lab, Clayborne Outpost etc.

[jonminkun36]

On 2/28/2017 at 8:35 PM, Steel said:

I found the first of the Mars trilogy (Red Mars) by Kim Stanley Robinson to be an interesting take on Mars colonisation (and mostly founded in some sort of science). It also touches on some of the more political (who is actually in charge?) and ethical issues (in the books they leave behind an overpopulated earth that is quickly fracturing into war). The writing is not the best, but once you get past that it was really engaging.

thanks for that varient