coming soon..., books to be published soon Options

[rlorenz]

The Human Archaeology of Space: Lunar, Planetary and Interstellar Relics of Exploration
It's a sort of catalog listing archaeological artifacts that have been left behind in space....

Not sure what prompted the flurry of books on this topic, but there is another

Handbook of Space Engineering, Archaeology, and Heritage
Editor(s): Ann Darrin, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, Maryland, USA
Beth L. O'Leary, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA
published by CRC press, ISBN: 9781420084313

http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781420084313

Has a chapter by me in it...

[nprev]

Huh. Wonder if the Google X-Prize was the main stimulus. Good that there's some scholarship happening on the subject, anyhow.

[rlorenz]

April 10, 2008
Titan Unveiled: Saturn's Mysterious Moon Explored
by Ralph Lorenz, Jacqueline Mitton
Publisher: Princeton University Press

Titan Unveiled came out in paperback this week (a rather affordable fifteen bucks at a well-known
on-line retailer)
The paperback has an additional chapter to bring it a little more up to date with lakes, Flagship, etc.

[Guest_Lunik9_*]

Voyager seeking newer worlds in the third age of discovery
is a narrative of the Voyager mission - its conception, its launch, its trek through the solar system. But along with that chronicle is a running commentary that positions the mission within the long trajectory of exploration by Western civilization and asks how Voyager's journey resembles and differs from earlier expeditions. The organizing device is the concept of three great ages of discovery of which Voyager may be the grand gesture for the third. The third age had its transition in Antarctica and its first major announcement with the International Geophysical Year; its geographic domains are ice, ocean, and space; its cultural context is an uneasy bonding with a greater modernism.

• Hardcover: 480 pages
• Publisher: Viking Adult (July 22, 2010)
• ISBN-10: 0670021830
• ISBN-13: 978-0670021833
Review;
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id...Stephen_J._Pyne

[Phil Stooke]

"its cultural context is an uneasy bonding with a greater modernism. "

LOL!!!

Phil

[Guest_Lunik9_*]

The Space Robots of the Soviets: Mission Technologies and Discoveries
by Welsey T. Huntress, Jr.

The Space Robots of the Soviets provides a history of the Soviet robotic lunar and planetary exploration program from its inception, with the attempted launch of a lunar impactor on September 23, 1958, to the last launch in the Russian national scientific space program in the 20th Century, Mars 96, on November 16, 1996.

Springer by June 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4419-7897-4

[Guest_Lunik9_*]

Professor Colin Pillinger's new book: My Life on Mars - The Beagle 2 diaries

http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.aspx/page/2243/l/nl

[Guest_Lunik9_*]

Two more books on unmanned spacecraft:

From Jars to the Stars: How Ball came to build a Comet-hunting machine.
by Todd Neff

ISBN 978-0982958308
From Jars to the Stars tells the remarkable story of Ball Aerospace - descended from the famed maker of Mason jars - and NASA's Deep Impact comet mission, presenting an inside look into the backgrounds, characters and motivations of the men and women who create the spacecraft on which the American space program rides.


Martian Summer: The Phoenix Mission, Cowboy Spacemen and the Search for Life on the Red Planet.
by Andrew Kessler

ISBN 978-1605981765
The Phoenix Mars mission was the first man-made probe ever sent to the Martian arctic. They planned to find out how climate change can turn a warm wet planet (read: Earth) into a cold barren desert (read: Mars). That might seem like a trivial pursuit, but it's probably the most impressive feat we humans can achieve. It takes nearly the entirety of human knowledge to do it.

[Guest_Lunik9_*]

Deep Space Probes: to the outer solar system & beyond
by Gregory Matloff

ISBN: 978-3642063923

The Space Age is nearly 50 years old but exploration of the outer planets and beyond has only just begun. Deep-Space Probes Second Edition draws on the latest research to explain why we should explore beyond the edge of the Solar System and how we can build highly sophisticated robot spacecraft to make the journey. Many technical problems remain to be solved, among them propulsion systems to permit far higher velocities, and technologies to build vehicles a fraction of the size of today's spacecraft.
This second edition includes an entirely new chapter on holographic message plaques for future interstellar probes - a NASA-funded project.

[Phil Stooke]

Chang-e 1 lunar atlas.

I guess it's just out, not 'to be published' but I don't think it needs its own thread. Rather expensive (yikes, even more than my thingy) but probably should be in big libraries... so if you're attached to a big library you could suggest it to them and see if they bite. There is an email address for further information. It's not on the Sinomaps website (yet?) (note spelling error in that image - the publisher is Sinomaps Press)

Phil

[elakdawalla]

I've requested a review copy for the Society -- we'll see if they send one.

[monitorlizard]

To be published on Nov. 8, "Lakes on Mars" (edited by Nathalie Cabrol & Edmond Grin) is a book that may be of interest to many readers here. It has relevance to MSL, with an entire chapter devoted to Holden Crater. I assume Eberswalde is mentioned somewhere as well. Here's the Amazon.com link:

http://www.amazon.com/Lakes-Mars-Nathalie-...5144&sr=1-3

[peter59]

The Kaguya Lunar Atlas: The Moon in High Resolution
174 pages and a very reasonable price.

[peter59]

"The Kaguya Lunar Atlas: The Moon in High Resolution"
You can see thumbnails of all images contained in the book. I recommend to see.
It will be absolutely fantastic book. I have already ordered.

[Paolo]

The Space Robots of the Soviets: Mission Technologies and Discoveries
by Welsey T. Huntress, Jr.

it landed in my "boite à lettres" this week. it looks quite good, my only negative remark is on the pictures, which are often of mediocre quality