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Publications in 2018 Astronautics Publications Simulations of Space Societies. Springer [Space 2018 and Society series]. Baker, David, NASA Operations Manual: 1958 Onwards. Haynes Publishing [Haynes This list comprises English-language books published (original appearance or new edition) Manuals]. on various aspects of spaceflight in a variety of Baker, David, NASA Skylab Owners’ Workshop disciplines and ranging from juvenile and pop Manual. Haynes Publishing [Haynes Manuals]. literature to texts intended for academia or Benaroya, Haym, Building Habitats on the practicing scientists and engineers. In addition to Moon: Engineering Approaches to Lunar obvious topics of human spaceflight and Settlements. Springer-Praxis. unmanned interplanetary explorations, this list Benson, Michael, Space Odyssey: Stanley also includes the occasional non-astronautics Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a title that has a space “flavor.” I have not Masterpiece. Simon & Schuster. included titles solely published in electronic Brennan, Louis, Loizos Heracleous, and format. Books denoted by “” are for young Alessandra Vecchi, Above and Beyond: readers. Special thanks to Chris Gamble and Exploring the Business of Space. Routledge. Joni Wilson for their assistance in compiling and Brown, Matt, Everything You Know about editing the list. Space Is Wrong. Batsford. —MLC C–D–E A–B Cabrol, Nathalie and Edmond Grin, From Aldrin, Buzz, Investing in Our Future: Habitability to Life on Mars. Elsevier. Preparing the Next Generation to Occupy Mars. Carlton Books (ed.), Earth View: Extraordinary Purdue University Press. Images of Our Planet from the Landsat Aldrin, Buzz and Marianne Dyson, To the NASA/USGS Satellites. Carlton Books. Moon and Back: My Apollo 11 Adventure. Cassutt, Michael, The Astronaut Maker: How National Geographic Children’s Books. One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Alesse, Beth, The Earth: A Visual Story of Our Spaceflight for a Generation. Chicago Review Amazing Planet Featuring NASA Images. Press. Amherst Media. Caswell, Kurt, Laika’s Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog. Trinity University Press. Aliberti, Marco, India in Space: Between Utility and Geopolitics. Springer [Studies in Space Cavallaro, Umberto, The Race to the Moon Chronicled in Stamps, Postcards, and Policy series]. Postmarks: A Story of Puffery vs. the Aliberti, Marco and Ksenia Lisitsyna, Pragmatic. Springer-Praxis. Russia’s Posture in Space: Prospects for Ceruzzi, Paul, GPS. MIT Press [Essential Europe. Springer [Studies in Space Policy Knowledge series]. series]. Anderson, Clayton, It’s a Question of Space: Chakeres, John, First Fleet: NASA’s Space An Ordinary Astronaut’s Answers to Sometimes Shuttle Program, 1981–1986. Daylight Books. Extraordinary Questions. University of Ciancone, Michael, Foreword to Spaceflight: Nebraska Press. An Illustrated Bibliography of Pre-1958 Bainbridge, William Sims, Computer Publications on Rocketry and Space Travel. Apogee Books. Clemons, Jack, Safely to Earth: The Men and Geppert, Alexander (ed.), Limiting Outer Women Who Brought the Astronauts Home. Space: Astroculture after Apollo. Palgrave University Press of Florida. Macmillan. Clerc, Philippe, Space Law in the European Gladstone, James, Earthrise: Apollo 8 and the Context: National Architecture, Legislation and Photo That Changed the World. Owlkids. Policy in France. Eleven International Gorn, Michael, Spacecraft: 100 Iconic Rockets, Publishing [Essential Air and Space Law Shuttles, and Satellites That Put Us in Space. series]. Voyageur Press. Davenport, Christian, The Space Barons: Elon Harland, David, Mars Owners’ Workshop Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Manual: From 4.5 Billion Years Ago to Present. Cosmos. PublicAffairs. Haynes Publishing [Haynes Manuals]. Determann, Jörg Matthias, Space Science and Hill, Paul Sean, Mission Control Management: the Arab World: Astronauts, Observatories and The Principles of High Performance and Perfect Nationalism in the Middle East. I.B.Tauris. Decision-Making Learned from Leading at Eicher, David and Brian May, Mission Moon NASA. Nicholas Brealey Publishing. 3-D: A New Perspective on the Space Race. Jackson, Libby, Galaxy Girls: 50 Amazing MIT Press. Stories of Women in Space. Harper Design. Eves, Stuart, Space Traffic Control. AIAA James, Tom, Deep Space Commodities: [Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics Exploration, Production and Trading. Palgrave series]. Macmillan. Eyles, Don, Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memoir. Fort Point Press. K–L–M F–G–H–I–J Kaku, Michio, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Feireiss, Lukas and Michael Najjar (eds.), Immortality, and Our Destiny beyond Earth. Planetary Echoes: Exploring the Implications of Doubleday. Human Settlement in Outer Space. Spector Kelly, Scott, Infinite Wonder: An Astronaut’s Books. Photographs from a Year in Space. Knopf. Fernholz, Tim, Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Kitmacher, Gary, Ron Miller, and Robert Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race. Houghton Pearlman, Space Stations: The Art, Science, Mifflin Harcourt. and Reality of Working in Space. Smithsonian Fitch, Matt and Chris Baker, Apollo. Books. SelfMadeHero. Kumar, Sanjay, India China Space Capability: Froehlich, Annette (ed.), National Space A Comparison. VIJ Books (India). Legislation: A Comparative and Evaluative Kurson, Robert, Rocket Men: The Daring Analysis. Springer [Studies in Space Policy Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who series]. Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon. Froehlich, Annette (ed.), Space Resource Random House. Utilization: A View from an Emerging Space Lakdawalla, Emily, The Design and Faring Nation. Springer [Studies in Space Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Policy series]. Performs Its Job. Springer-Praxis. Gemini 8: The NASA Mission Reports. CG Lardier, Christian and Stefan Barensky, The Publishing. Proton Launcher: History and Developments. Wiley-ISTE [Space Science and Technology Motum, Markus, Curiosity: The Story of a Mars series]. Rover. Candlewick. Launius, Roger, The Smithsonian History of Muir-Harmony, Teasel, Apollo to the Moon: A Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to History in 50 Objects. National Geographic. the Extraterrestrial Future. Smithsonian Books. Laurberg, Marie et al., The Moon: From Inner Worlds to Outer Space. Louisiana Museum of N–O–P–Q Modern Art (Denmark). Leinbach, Michael and Jonathan Ward, Neufeld, Michael, Spaceflight: A Concise Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of History. MIT Press [Essential Knowledge a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew. Arcade. series]. Lewis, John et al., Verner Suomi: The Life and Olson, Valerie, Into the Extreme: U.S. Work of the Founder of Satellite Meteorology. Environmental Systems and Politics beyond the American Meteorological Society. Earth. University of Minnesota Press. Logsdon, John, Ronald Reagan and the Space O’Neill, Michael, Pioneers of Spaceflight. Frontier. Palgrave Macmillan [Studies in the Danann Books. History of Science and Technology series]. Peake, Tim, The Astronaut Selection Test Book: Logsdon, John (ed.), The Penguin Book of Do You Have What It Takes? Century. Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the Potter, Christopher, The Earth Gazers: On Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight. Penguin Seeing Ourselves. Pegasus Books. Classics. Pyle, Rod, Missions to the Moon: The Story of Loske, Alexandra and Robert Massey, Moon: Man’s Greatest Adventure Brought to Life with Art, Science, Culture. Ilex Press. Augmented Reality. Andre Deutsch. Lund, Tom, Early Exploration of the Moon: [“Repackaging” of a 2009 title.] Ranger to Apollo, Luna to Lunniy Korabl. Pyle, Rod, Space 2.0: How Private Spaceflight, Springer-Praxis. a Resurgent NASA, and International Partners Lyall, Francis and Paul Larsen, Space Law: A are Creating a New Space Age. BenBella Treatise (2nd Edition). Routledge. [Published in Books. late 2017, but did not appear on 2017 list, so it is included here for completeness.] R–S–T Malysheva, Nataliia, Space Law and Policy in the Post-Soviet States. Eleven International Radley, Charles, Jerome Pearson, and Publishing [Essential Air and Space Law Michael Laine, The Lunar Elevator: Bringing series]. the Riches of the Moon Down to Earth. Manto, Cindy Donze, Stennis Space Center. Springer-Praxis. Arcadia Publishing [Images of America series]. Reichl, Eugen, Saturn V: America’s Rocket to Meltzer, Brad, I Am Neil Armstrong. Dial the Moon. Schiffer [America in Space series]. Books [Ordinary People Change the World Rhuday-Perkovich, Olugbemisola, Above and series]. Beyond: NASA’s Journey to Tomorrow. Feiwel Mitchell, Kenny, The Cradle of American Space & Friends. Exploration: Huntsville, Alabama. Apogee Rödel, Eberhard, The Soviet Space Program: Books. First Steps, 1941–1953. Schiffer [The Soviets in Morton, Adam, Should We Colonize Other Space series]. Planets? Polity [New Human Frontiers series]. Sandlas, Ved Prakash, The Leapfroggers: An U–V–W–X–Y–Z Insider’s Account of ISRO. HarperCollins India. Seedhouse, Erik, Space Radiation and Von Ehrenfried, Manfred, Apollo Mission Astronaut Safety. Springer [SpringerBriefs in Control: The Making of a National Historic Space Development]. Landmark. Springer-Praxis. Seedhouse, Erik, Tim Peake and Britain’s Road Weintraub, David, Life on Mars: What to Know to Space. Springer. before We Go. Princeton University Press. Shayler, Dave, Gemini Flies! Unmanned Flights Williams, Dave, Defying Limits: Lessons from and the First Manned Mission. Springer-Praxis.
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