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| SPACE 2.0 How Private Spaceflight, a Resurgent NASA, and International Partners Are Creating a New Space Age Rod Pyle Dallas: Benbella Books, February 2019 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-944648-45-9 | ||||
| ISBN 1-944648-45-3 | 317pp. | SC/LF/FCI | $21.95 | |
| Page 6: | "But Constellation, continually over schedule and underbudgeted, was canceled by President Obama in 2010 after a program review by aerospace experts..." |
| Wording: S/B "behind schedule and over budget" — the typical way to describe these all too common problems with NASA programs. |
| Page 23: | "But we have made a solid start, and ongoing research in places like the ISS have taught us much." |
| Number error: S/B "has". |
| Page 25: | "You probably have some thoughts of your own about why spaceflight and the long-term exploration of the cosmos is important..." |
| Number error: S/B "are". |
| Page 25: | "NASA, and those who support its mission, has struggled to convince both the Congress and the broader public why space exploration is important." |
| Number error: S/B "have". |
| Page 27: | "At the same time, the agency is running far more complex and wide-ranging programs than they were in the 1960s..." |
| Number error: S/B "it was". |
| Page 49: | "Neither the capsule nor the rocket are reusable." |
| Number error: S/B "is". |
| Page 70: | "These suits also had to be flexible enough to allow the wearer to perform work while it was pressurized..." |
| Number error: S/B "The suit". |
| Page 111: | "...twenty-two square miles of this stunning landscape remains largely undeveloped." |
| Number error: S/B "remain". |
| Page 115: | "Musk formed Space Exploration Technologies Corp., better known as SpaceX, in 2002 and the company successfully launched its first Falcon 1 in 2008, after three failed attempts." |
| Missing comma: S/B "in 2002, and". |
| Pages 118-9: | "The lawsuit was a risky gamble that paid off, and it probably foreshadows how some business will be conducted in the new space area." |
| The preceding discussion leaves the impression that Musk's lawsuit was without precedent. Not so; aerospace contractors have been suing the awarding agency over awards to competitors since before the paint was dry on the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. See GAO Bid Protests: An Overview of Time Frames and Procedures (24-page PDF.) |
| Page 130: | "In fact, he's been a space-flight dreamer since his childhood—he built his first rocket from scratch when he was twelve years old, after discovering an eighty-year-old case of dynamite in his grandmother's barn." |
| Tory Bruno is a steely-eyed missile man indeed! |
| Page 156: | "...the number of business plans that we saw were increasing, and the quality of deals that we saw was increasing." |
| Number error: S/B "was" as in the following clause. |
| Page 180: | "There are a number of other small national space agencies, with new ones popping up every few years. Iran, North and South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and even tiny Bangladesh and Luxembourg (with a population of just 535,000) have announced their intentions in spaceflight." |
| Word order: S/B "Bangladesh and tiny Luxembourg". |
| Pages 187-88: | "...ULA has used Russian engines for its Atlas V rockets since 2002—but soon will be switching over the rocket engines build by Blue Origin." |
| Missing word, verb tense: S/B "switching over to the" and "built". |
| Page 206: | "Martian ice deposits and its atmosphere contain the necessary constituents..." |
| Usage: S/B "the planet's atmosphere". Conversely, simply drop the word "its." |
| Page 227: | "Material that is superheated by the impact, including ocean steam and vaporized rock from the seafloor, travel back up that tunnel into the air." |
| Number error: S/B "travels". |
| Page 248: | "Pilot Space Settlement: Blue Origin or SpaceX launch elements of a privately funded space colony to low Earth orbit for testing in 2028." |
| Number error: S/B "launches". |
| Page 252: | "Former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz thinks it is destiny, the oldest of trump cards that will drive settlements..." |
| Missing comma: S/B "the oldest of trump cards, that will". |
| Page 259: | "Triple sonic booms from each booster, the result of their high-speed transonic reentries, rippled across the landscape." |
| Wording: S/B "Triple sonic booms, one from each booster". |
| Page 260: | "Past the Red Planet, the Tesla looped back toward Earth and then return to deep space in an endless oval." |
| Verb tense: S/B "loops" and "returns" — going by the overall description of its motion. (Track its motion using the sites mentioned here.) |
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