List your space books

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 7:33 pm

I bought the autobiography of Deke Slayton at camp. Has anyone else read it? It's called "Deke".

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 7:34 pm

No, but I'm gonna look for that, too.

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 7:46 pm

I have that one. I can't remember if I've read it or not though. I think I have. When I met Homer Hickam a while back he said someone had bought rights or was thinking of buying rights to make a movie of his book Back to the Moon. All of Homer Hickam's books are good, but my favorites are his three memoirs: Rocket Boys, The Coalwood Way, and Sky of Stone.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 8:14 pm

I own Deke but I just can't figure out where I put it. I am finishing "The Moonlandings" first.

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 11:14 pm

I'm trying to finish the following books right now: Flight, Failure is Not an Option, A Man on the Moon, The Right Stuff and something else that I can't remember the title of right now. Never try to read 5 books at once.

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 9:49 am

stargazer0105 wrote:Never try to read 5 books at once.

I've learned that the hard way.

Space Camp Brainiac · Thu Jul 17, 2003 12:36 pm

That's true, cuz I kept mixing up the different plots and stuff. And another good book that is kinda related to space is Deep Future, by Stephen Baxter. This is not a science fiction read. It's one of those books that tell what the author thinks of our mankind's future in space. It tells about terraformation and other interesting topics. I know some of the things won't happen, but it's nice to think about them. It talks about the Apollo missions and it refers back to the previous space missions as well. It's very popular at the library and any book store.

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 3:36 pm

I finally finished Flight!!

AstroGirl · Post by **AstroGirl** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 12:53 pm

Here are my favorite books that are falling apart from my reading them so often:

Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
The Case for Mars by Robert Zubrin
Back to the Moon by Homer Hickam (not a true story, but da mit I wish it were!)

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 8:20 pm

AstroGirl wrote:Back to the Moon by Homer Hickam (not a true story, but da mit I wish it were!)

So do I, so do I...

AstroGirl · Post by **AstroGirl** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 11:02 pm

stargazer0105 wrote:I have that one. I can't remember if I've read it or not though. I think I have. When I met Homer Hickam a while back he said someone had bought rights or was thinking of buying rights to make a movie of his book Back to the Moon. All of Homer Hickam's books are good, but my favorites are his three memoirs: Rocket Boys, The Coalwood Way, and Sky of Stone.

When did you meet Homer Hickam? I met him at a book signing in Denver last year. He was pretty awesome. And he told me that he hoped I made it to NASA because they needed more like me there. I was walking on air for weeks. That was how I got introduced to Back to the Moon, which is my favorite book, well, ever. Rocket Boys is awesome too, that's how I found out about him, obviously. I never read sky of stone. I have issues with coal mining...

AstroGirl · Post by **AstroGirl** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 10:48 am

And another good book that is kinda related to space is Deep Future, by Stephen Baxter.

Stephen Baxter also wrote Voyage, a book I own but have never read (no time!!). It is basicly about how if certain points in history had gone differently (JFK was never assassinated, Nixon decided to continue with the Apollo program instead of going on with the shuttle, etc) then we could have landed on mars in 1986. To fill it with even more depressing irony, he named the mars lander Challenger. It is an actual story, with characters and a plot and what not, and it's pretty good what I've read of it. But like Back to the Moon, it's not real. And that makes me sad!

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 1:04 pm

I met him about 2 1/2 years ago. My dad was doing some work for Lily at the time, and he pulled me out of school for a day so that I could go see him. He was doing a presentation at Lily that day. It was fun, especially the part about missing school. If I remember right, it was his first trip back to Indianapolis since high school, which made it really cool. I'm always trying to see when he'll be back in the area, but thus far he hasn't been back.

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 4:51 pm

AstroGirl wrote:I never read sky of stone. I have issues with coal mining...

Sky Of Stone was fabulous. I guess if you have issues with coal mining... but it was still great.