space@mit-mc (03/08/85)
From: Charles Howell <m15434@mitre>
(Quoting from the Washington / Northern VA Scanner, the monthly
publication of the local IEEE...)
"IEEE has announced the publication of "The Space Station:
An Idea whose Time Has Come". The book is edited by Theodore R.
Simpson, Project-leader at the think-tank ANSER. During 1981 he
served as an IEEE Congressional Fellow on the Staff of the Senate
Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space.
Through his close association with the space program, Mr.
Simpson has assembled the attitudes and opinions of a group of
space policy leaders from government, industry, and academia who
were directly involved in the decision to build the space
station, and who are currently engaged in its development.
Authors include President Ronald Reagan; U.S. Senator Howell
Heflin, ranking Democrat on the Senate Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space; Apollo 17 Astronaut and former U.S.
Senator Harrison H. Schmidt; James Beggs, head of NASA; Dr. John
H. Gibbons, director of OTA, and many others.
[...] Organized into five parts, it first reviews the
history of U.S. and Soviet manned space flight. An examination
of the political decision to build the space station follows.
The third section of "The Space Station" describes the possible
and probable designs, uses, and impacts of the space station. And
finally, the long term potential of permanently manned
exploration of the solar system is discussed, from space
industrialization to eventual space colonization.
The book is priced at $17.95 for IEEE members and $19.95 for
nonmembers, and can be ordered postpaid from the IEEE Service
Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854. A $2.00 billing
charge is added to all non-prepaid orders."
I have ordered it, but I don't know anything about the quality.
Has anyone out there read this? What did you think? (I should
have sent this message off BEFORE shelling out $17.95... oh
well.)
Chuck Howell