Tag Archives: Carrying the Fire
Wednesday’s Book Review: “Homesteading Space”
Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story. By David Hitt, Owen Garriott, Joseph P. Kerwin, with the diary of Alan L. Bean. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-080-3224-34-6. 548 pages. $29.95. Accounts by astronauts are sometimes entertaining, sometimes insightful and … Continue reading →
Wednesday’s Book Review: “Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys”
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys. By Michael Collins. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974. (40th Anniversary Edition, June 23, 2009) There have been several excellent Apollo astronaut memoirs, especially Gene Cernan’s The Last Man on the Moon and … Continue reading →
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