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This has been discussed before, but in the interests of traffic, here goes:
What do you think are the essential books for readers of sci.space.*? I think one of the most important would be Rocket Propulsion Elements. Any others? Thanks, David |
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David Findlay wrote:
This has been discussed before, but in the interests of traffic, here goes: What do you think are the essential books for readers of sci.space.*? For which readers? The students of history? The engineers? The mars-at-all-costs crowd? I think one of the most important would be Rocket Propulsion Elements. Any others? Thanks, My main interest is in the economics of colonization, how is that book useful to me? D. -- The STS-107 Columbia Loss FAQ can be found at the following URLs: Text-Only Version: http://www.io.com/~o_m/columbia_loss_faq.html Enhanced HTML Version: http://www.io.com/~o_m/columbia_loss_faq_x.html Corrections, comments, and additions should be e-mailed to , as well as posted to sci.space.history and sci.space.shuttle for discussion. |
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What do you think are the essential books for readers of sci.space.*?
Well, it depends on one's interests, but the Isakowitz is pretty helpful if you want to keep track of which rockets are being built around the world. It lists payload, fuels, performance, launch sites, and other stuff of that sort. If you don't want to spend the $80, the http://www.faqs.org/faqs/space/launchers/ page is pretty good (but rather outdated, even more so than the 3rd edition of the paper Isakowitz). There are plenty of web sites which have some of this, for example http://www.astronautix.com/ or http://www.spaceandtech.com/spacedata/elvs/elvs.shtml |
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Derek Lyons wrote:
David Findlay wrote: This has been discussed before, but in the interests of traffic, here goes: What do you think are the essential books for readers of sci.space.*? For which readers? The students of history? The engineers? The mars-at-all-costs crowd? Okay, some categories: History: Failure is not an Option, Gene Kranz Engineering: Rocket Propulsion Elements Exploration: ??? Colonisation: ??? Celestial Mechanics: ??? Thanks, David |
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Findlay wrote: This has been discussed before, but in the interests of traffic, here goes: What do you think are the essential books for readers of sci.space.*? I think one of the most important would be Rocket Propulsion Elements. Any others? Thanks, Thoughts related to my interests and competencies, which have a tendency not to be rocket science... b http://www.astronautix.com/ is not a book, but is one of the most useful reference materials around; ditto the various bits and pieces on history.nasa.gov. Limiting oneself to dead-trees (g), Siddiqi (sp?) & Chaikin seem to be the commonly mooted "space-race-era" histories, and I keep hearing quite wonderful things about Jenkins' book on STS. Of course, I only own one of those three... damn "money", and that "goods and services" crap... I want books... I do feel everyone should read /Case for Mars/, even if they throw it across the room or tear out all the "and once we get SSTOs..." chapters afterwards. This is a not uncommon reaction, based on my sampleset. The other one I'd like to pimp at everyone is Sagan & Shlovskii's "Intelligent Life In The Universe", which has a few v. outdated chapters (ie, everything wrt Mars), but is excellent nonetheless. Virtually everyone you can name has written (or, at least, put their name to) an autobiography; I don't own any, but I do recall (being told) that Mike Collin's book is a cut above most of them. A quick glance at the shelf shows "A House In Space" (Henry Cooper); a 1978 book on Skylab. Interesting reading, a good accessible read on space-station lessons. A good undergraduate physics textbook, for those of us who were never very good at it, may well prove handy at times; everyone owns one anyway, right? There's a lot of general references which might prove useful; I have a few "guide to the Solar System" type books of various vintages kicking around, although most of the data they contain can be found online easily enough. Ditto most general reference books; I tend to accrete these (I have a medical dictionary, a journalism law reference, and a popular-science book on the various chemical elements to hand just now), and I suspect anyone else who lets themselves buy books on the "that might come in handy" basis will... you never know when being able to look up the world actinium reserves ("unimaginably little", since you asked) might be important. I really can't think of anything else particularly relevant, although the Apogee books are excellent in their individual sectors. -- -Andrew Gray |
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There is a lot of these. For the basics of American spaceflight, Baker's
A History of Manned Spaceflight is hard to beat. (Conspiracy fans should do a compare&contrast between Baker's Soviet history and what is know today.) How could you not include Chaiken's A Man on the Moon? Kranz' book is good. His boss' (Flight, Chris Kraft) is better. Collin's Carrying the Fire is better than either. Haven't read any of them yet, but I'll have to sometime. I'm currently reading a book called Tracking Apollo to the Moon, by Hamish Lindsay. It's good, covering the programme from an Australian tracking station point of view, although there a numerous typo's, wrong names, and that makes me wonder if some of the other details are wrong too. Interesting book though, and some good pictures. Thanks, David |
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David Findlay wrote:
This has been discussed before, but in the interests of traffic, here goes: What do you think are the essential books for readers of sci.space.*? I think one of the most important would be Rocket Propulsion Elements. Any others? Thanks, Ah, a chance to show off a fraction of the Scott Lowther Non Lending Library: Primary space references; http://up-ship.com/images/Pdr_0015.jpg Secondary space references: http://up-ship.com/images/Pdr_0016.jpg Tertiary space references: http://up-ship.com/images/Pdr_0018.jpg All of my Orion and about 2/3 of my Dyna Soar references: http://up-ship.com/images/Pdr_0019.jpg -- Scott Lowther, Engineer Remove the obvious (capitalized) anti-spam gibberish from the reply-to e-mail address |
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Ah, a chance to show off a fraction of the Scott Lowther Non Lending
Library: When is your library opening for public borrowing? ;-) j/k *drools* David |
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David Findlay wrote:
Ah, a chance to show off a fraction of the Scott Lowther Non Lending Library: When is your library opening for public borrowing? ;-) j/k *drools* Let me think... when is Hell due for a frost? Some of the stuff I have took me years of patient work to get. Some took vast sums of money. Some took luck. Most just took a credit card. A couple of the books... "Handbook of Astronautical Engineering," and "Ballistics of the Future" (that one's not shown in the photos) are one-grand-plus books. Others, like the Hydrogen Peroxide Handbook, were downloaded off the net for free. Go figure. Not shown is the current pile of books that I plan on selling. One of those books is one of the afore-mentioned "Handbook..." -- Scott Lowther, Engineer Remove the obvious (capitalized) anti-spam gibberish from the reply-to e-mail address |
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