A Primetime-Andromeda Production, in association with British Satellite Broadcasting
“Jupiter Moon: The Pirates of Leda”
Image Entertainment
1990 (2007)
15:49:00
Publisher’s Web Site
Best of the Moon 2008 - High Frontier Fiction
Librarians’ Note: The 75 episodes released to date on DVD weave quite an interesting story of college students on a large spacecraft in orbit around Callisto, one of the moons of Jupiter. There’s a lot of drama as a varied cast of character archetypes rotate through the focus of the story, the adventures of the spaceship ILEA and Columbus College. [My character archetype would be Finbow Lewis, and just like his character I had an immediate crush on Herlinde. I can’t believe I’m that predictable] An errant comet, a megalomaniacal scientist leading humanity’s first step to another star, a desperate rescue, secret nukes and pirates plundering the vast resources of the Jupiter system, leaving the last episode a life-or-death cliff-hanger! This one is definitely an early contender for Best of the Moon 2008 in High Frontier fiction.
Andromeda Television Ltd.
“Jupiter Moon - The New Frontier, Vol.1″
Image Entertainment
1990 (2007)
Publisher’s Web Site
BBC Cult News Review
Best of the Moon 2008 - High Frontier Fiction
Matloff, Gregory L., Les Johnson & C. Bangs
“Living Off the Land in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos”
Copernicus Books
2007
ISBN13: 978-0-387-36054-6
Publisher’s Web Site
Astronomy Cast Episode 76: Lagrange Points
Dr. Fraser Cain & Pamela Gay
02/18/2008
On-Line Podcast
Best of the Moon 2008 - High Frontier EML-1
DNA Films
“Sunshine”
Fox Searchlight Pictures
2008
Publisher’s Web Site
Librarian’s Note: This one is quite a taut thriller. Murphy’s Law, human error, and the usual psychopath make for an edge-of-your-seat journey to the Sun.
Bova, Ben
“The Sam Gunn Omnibus”
Tor Books
2007
ISBN: 0-765-31617-X
Publisher’s Web Site
Holmes, Edward, et al. Illus. by Ron Turner et al. Steve Holland (ed.)
“Rick Random Space Detective”
Prion/Carlton Publishing
2008
ISBN13: 978-1-853-75673-3
Publisher’s Web Site
Editor’s Web Site
Crazy Vector Review
Stoddard, Paul
“Planetary Geology, Preliminary Edition”
Thomson - Brooks/Cole
2008
ISBN: 978-0-495-48285-7
Author’s Web Site
Zaehringer, Alfred & Steve Whitfield
“Rocket Science: Rocket Science in the Second Millenium”
Apogee Books
2008
ISBN: 1-894-95986-5
Publisher’s Web Site
Freeman, Marsha
“Krafft Ehricke’s ‘Extraterrestrial Imperative’”
Apogee Books
2008
ISBN13: 978-1-894-95991-9
Publisher’s Web Site
NSS Reading Space Review
Gorn, Michael H.
“Superstructures in Space: From Satellites to Space Stations - A Guide to What’s Out There”
Merrell Publishers
2008
ISBN13: 978-1-858-94417-3
Publisher’s Web Site
A Space About Books About Space Review
Ridpath, Ian
“Oxford Dictionary of Astronomy, 2nd. Ed.”
Oxford University Press
2007
ISBN13: 978-0-199-21493-8
Publisher’s Web Site
Universe Today Review
Librarian’s Note: While the title might mislead you into thinking this is a reference for telescope observers, at over 4,200 entries it could really be considered a ‘Dictionary of Space Science”, as a nice companion to Oxford’s “Dictionary of Space Exploration”.
Space Lifestyle Magazine #3
New Forks LLC
Fall 2007
Publisher’s Web Site
On-Line Text
Free Subscription!
STK: Satellite Tool Kit
Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI)
v 8.1.1
11/2007
Note: U.S. Government Export-Controlled Item. Registration Required
Publisher’s Web Site
Educators Site
Librarian’s Note: STK is pretty much the industry-standard software for satellite tracking. It’s come a long way since 2000 when we had a workshop on it during my Masters program at ISU. The basic package is great for an applied mathematics class at the advanced high school level, but probably best suited for introduction at the college level.
Special Alert!: AGI has teamed up with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to apply America’s high tech aerospace tracking systems to following Santa Claus on his global quest to deliver presents/rewards to all of the Good children of the Earth. A special Google YouTube channel has been reserved for the coverage. Details are here!
NASA
“Tech Briefs”
Vol. 31, No. 12
12/2007
Publisher’s Web Site
Librarian’s Note: Features “2007: The Year in Technology” with a number of interesting innovations. My favorite is the paper battery. You can roll it up, use it in the body to power devices, and more. Although the self-healing materials is pretty cool, too. If you work in industry you need to be getting this magazine.
Espace Magazine No 33 - ‘La Station Spatiale Internationale’
group Tiqap
Special Portfolio
11/2007
Publisher’s Web Site
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Librarian’s Note: Yet another really nice issue, this one a comprehensive overview of the ISS, how it grew, what it’s like working there, and so on. Tons of beautiful photos.
Mahalo Pictures
“Postcards from the Future”
Director: Alan Chan
05/21/2007
Publisher’s website
Trailer
Out of the Cradle Review
Cumbrian Sky Review
Orange County Space Society Review (pdf)
The Space Show Interview
Librarian’s note: We’re working on having screenings of this beautiful movie at the 2007 ISDC in Dallas.
Update: The screening went well and was repeated Saturday night. Wired.com was there, and posted articles here and here. Look for a World Premiere screening in LA later this year.
NB: DVDs Available Now!
Best of the Moon 2007 - Cultura Lunaris
Orbital Debris Program Office
“Orbital Debris Quarterly Newsletter”
NASA JSC
10/2007
On-line Text (pdf)
Phase 0 Architecture Feasibility Study
“Space-Based Solar Power As an Opportunity for Strategic Security”
Report to the Director, National Security Space Office
Interim Assessment Release 0.1
10 Oct 2007
On-Line Text (pdf) [fixed link]
Space.com article
MSNBC.com article
SpaceDaily.com article
Librarian’s Note: This is an excellent and important paper. This is the one project that the Baby Boom generation (and their kids Gens X & Y) can undertake that will leave a permanent investment in our nation’s posterity, and also serve the world. We invented this, and we can make it happen, though ultimately this is a global project, which means lots of business opportunity.
Part of the solution is that the current oil-producing nations absolutely need to be able to take a stake in the venture. The main end being eliminating the cultural nihilism that would accompany the end of oil production and the ending of the cash flows associated therewith, and moderating some of the more extremist views by a continued investment in energy delivery.
It will be very hard to accomplish, many people will die in horrible ways in space, and it will not be cheap in the beginning. If there was ever a reason to bring back Century Bonds (with 100 year tenors), this would be it. But this is the closest we will come to clean and permanent energy for a while. If we pass on this opportunity, it may be a long time before it returns. If we take it, we can start weaning ourselves from hydrocarbons and their deleterious effects while building a cislunar economy for even greater prosperity for the peoples of the world.
Go read this report.
Space Lifestyle Magazine #2
New Forks LLC
Fall 2007
Publisher’s Web Site
On-Line Text
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David, Leonard
“Space Based Solar Power Fuels Vision of Global Energy Security”
Space.com
19 Sep 2007
On-line Text
Librarian’s Note: Exactly! Most of the energy we consume on this planet is second or third-hand solar power anyway - why not just tap the source and cut out the polluting middlemen? Coal is carbon fixed in plants by ancient sunlight-driven photosynthesis. Oil is dead dinosaurs et al, more sunlight-driven stuff. Even hydroelectric is driven by the rains powered by the Sun. Wind is the displacement of differently heated air masses, again sun-driven. Only nuclear and geothermal are non-Sun-related. Let’s stop fighting over the last of the dead dinosaur goo and direct our energies and efforts into creating the kind of infrastructure that can benefit the whole world. Thank you DoD for at least taking the lead on this to highlight its importance for the security of the U.S. of A.
Launch Magazine Vol. 2 No. 5
MM Publishing
Sep/Oct 2007
Publisher’s Web Site
Librarian’s Note: The cover story, ‘Moon Voyagers’ is on the really good documentary “In the Shadow of the Moon”, which opens this Friday at theatres nationwide. I’ve seen most all of the Apollo documentaries, and this one is truly unique in what the documentarian has captured. Well worth a view. Launch provides a nice preview of the film. Also, there’s a great story on Bigelow modules, and a preview of the year 2057 by Ben Bova. Go get your copy now at local national bookstores. (Better yet, save the trouble and subscribe)
NewScientistSpace Special Report
“50 Years in Space”
NewScientist
09 Sep 2007
On-line Text
Zwaniecki, Andrzej
“Space Solar Energy Has Future, U.S. Researchers Say”
USINFO/U.S. Dept. of State
20 Aug 2007
On-Line Text
