Pioneering Space: Living on the Next Frontier

by Alcestis R. Oberg and James Edward Oberg

Book Overview

Book by Oberg, James E., Oberg, Alcestis R. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070480346
• ISBN13: 9780070480346
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Interesting but dated

Interesting book but a little out dated (the Challenger disaster being the big news of the book). The book is divided into themes for chapters. There are chapters on what it's like to be in space, how much better the human eye is than the camera, how basic human needs are taken care of in space (and what is done with the waste), etc. The writing is a little choppy, cutting between eras as needed for the thread of the theme, rather than smoothly segueing through eras or different missions to space. I found that style of writing the most difficult piece of the book. By about chapter four, I was finally in synch with the book and able to read more quickly.