First published 2017. Black Swan, paperback, 2018, pp 461, c.130,000. Scott Kelly made four journeys into space. The first two on the space shuttle, the latter two using Soyuz. His first was a short mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble space telescope, the remaining missions were to the International Space Station, culminating in his […]
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First published 1974. Pan Books, paperback, 2019, pp 482, c.175,000 words. Collins was the member of the crew of Apollo 11 that didn’t walk on the moon. This is his autobiography, written by himself. Collins devotes only the first ten percent of the book to describing his life and career before joining NASA. He describes
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First published 1984. Black Swan paperback, 2012, pp 395, c.90,000 words. This is an attempt to explain quantum mechanics to the layman. Gribbin has written other history of science books and he takes that approach here, giving us much detail on the people who worked in theoretical physics during the first half of the twentieth
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