Someone who failed their 2023 Reading Challenge and looking forward to making up for that in 2024.
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7% complete! Chris J. Karr has read 7 of 100 books.
Collecting every issue ever published of one of the most beloved comic book series of all time, this oversized graphic …
This is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois Cairns - jobless and depressed in …
Escaping Gravity is former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver's firsthand account of how a handful …
After reading Ashlee Vance's "When the Heavens Went on Sale", I expected this to be more of a book about the same companies and same New Space developments, but from the government angle.
Instead, I got a much longer history of Garver's involvement in space policy stretching beyond the Challenger disaster. To the extent New Space is a theme in this book, it's mainly focused on SpaceX, with Blue Origin following a close second. (The hero of Vance's book, Gen. Pete Worden is mentioned ONCE.)
And you know what? That's fine. SpaceX has been the big driver in changing American space policy, and Garver's account really highlights what an uphill battle that was within NASA. Much of the book describes her bucking the prevailing attitudes at NASA (though she is quick to justify that as an allegiance to the President over the NASA administrator), and succeeding in some cases, and …
After reading Ashlee Vance's "When the Heavens Went on Sale", I expected this to be more of a book about the same companies and same New Space developments, but from the government angle.
Instead, I got a much longer history of Garver's involvement in space policy stretching beyond the Challenger disaster. To the extent New Space is a theme in this book, it's mainly focused on SpaceX, with Blue Origin following a close second. (The hero of Vance's book, Gen. Pete Worden is mentioned ONCE.)
And you know what? That's fine. SpaceX has been the big driver in changing American space policy, and Garver's account really highlights what an uphill battle that was within NASA. Much of the book describes her bucking the prevailing attitudes at NASA (though she is quick to justify that as an allegiance to the President over the NASA administrator), and succeeding in some cases, and losing in a lot.
In the end, I got a different book than the one I expected, but it was quite interesting nonetheless.
Escaping Gravity is former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver's firsthand account of how a handful of revolutionaries overcame the political …
Escaping Gravity is former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver's firsthand account of how a handful of revolutionaries overcame the political …
Required reading for anyone following the New Space economy. This will become a definitive historical text should mankind actually escape the Earth's gravity well and establish a meaningful presence "out there".
#NewSpace #RocketLab #RKLB #Astra #ASTR #PlanetLabs #PL #FireflyAerospace #NASA #PeteWorden
Required reading for anyone following the New Space economy. This will become a definitive historical text should mankind actually escape the Earth's gravity well and establish a meaningful presence "out there".
#NewSpace #RocketLab #RKLB #Astra #ASTR #PlanetLabs #PL #FireflyAerospace #NASA #PeteWorden
The first in a series of exciting new flash weird fiction. This issue features both new and established authors, all …
The first in a series of exciting new flash weird fiction. This issue features both new and established authors, all …
It’s Summer and what better way to celebrate than with the latest issue of Weird Fiction Quarterly?
From the …
It’s Summer and what better way to celebrate than with the latest issue of Weird Fiction Quarterly?
From the …
Collecting every issue ever published of one of the most beloved comic book series of all time, this oversized graphic …
Welcome to the sunlit uplands of the 21st century! Britain's avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimaginable …
Solid collection of accessible essays on Lovecraft-related and Lovecraft-adjacent topics.
