posted 01-25-2010 04:09 PM               

So if you would like an index to print out and place into your copy of ITSS simply email me and I'll forward it on to you. I will also advise when those for the other books become available.

posted 01-26-2010 07:48 PM               

The index pagination remains exactly the same for the hardcover as well as the paperback edition, but I've now requested the modified version from UNP and will advise collectSPACErs when this becomes available. Meanwhile I've noted those to whom I've already sent the "old" version and will forward the revised index to them once I have received it.

posted 03-03-2010 12:35 AM               

However it is with a great deal of pleasure and personal satisfaction that I announce the author of the twelfth and final book in the series, "Wheels Stop," will be collectSPACE regular Rick Houston, who wrote such a great opening chapter for the soon-to-be-released series volume "Footprints in the Dust." Rick's book will take the shuttle story through from where the first shuttle book leaves off (the Challenger disaster) to the final space shuttle mission.

posted 03-10-2010 04:21 AM               

The paperback of "In the Shadow of the Moon" is, I believe, now about to go to the printers. As soon as I can get an index for that I will also make available copies for anyone who wishes to place an index in the back of their hardcover copies.

posted 08-16-2010 07:24 AM               

2007: Into That Silent Sea
2008: In the Shadow of the Moon
2008: To a Distant Day
2008: Homesteading Space
2009: Ambassadors from Earth
2010: Footprints in the Dust

Are there already some future titles known/confirmed?

posted 08-16-2010 08:13 AM               

• Touching Infinity: The Second Great Age of Solar System Exploration, by Jay Gallentine.

• Wheels Stop: The End of the Shuttle Era, by Rick Houston.

posted 08-24-2010 10:39 AM            

Left to Right: Robert Pearlman (Footprints In The Dust epilogue), Francis French (Into That Silent Sea, In the Shadow of the Moon), Owen Garriott (Homesteading Space), Al Worden (To A Distant Day foreword), David Hitt (Homesteading Space), with Heather Smith of NASA Marshall.

All we needed was Jay Gallentine and we would have had someone from every published book. Jay, where were you?

posted 08-29-2010 08:00 PM               

Sorry that I wasn't able to attend. I was here:

posted 03-03-2012 09:43 PM               

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I am working as hard as I can possibly go on one of them, I promise!

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posted 10-31-2012 04:18 AM               

First cab off the rank will be Michelle Evans' much-anticipated "X-15: WINGS INTO SPACE: Flying the first Reusable Spacecraft," and this book is now in early production with a release time frame of Spring 2013.

Next up is Rick Houston's marvellous "WHEELS STOP: The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986-2011." Now officially accepted for publication, this book is expected to be released in the Fall of 2013.

"BOLD THEY RISE: The First Space Shuttle Era" by David Hitt and Heather Smith will fall into the following release period of Spring 2014. There were unavoidable delays in the recent submission of this first-rate manuscript, which means that this and the Rick Houston book will be released out of sequence, but both books will be worth the wait, I can assure you.

It now seems that Jay Gallentine's follow-up effort to his award-winning first book will also be released in Spring 2014 - the first scheduled double-up effort for the series. "TOUCHING INFINITY: The Second Great Age of Solar System Exploration" continues the story begun with "AMBASSADORS TO EARTH" by Jay, although there may yet be a change in the working title.

The final, but certainly not least book in the series, "OUTPOSTS ON THE FRONTIER: Space Laboratories and Stations in Orbit" by Jay Chladek is now in the final throes of writing and self-editing by Jay prior to submission. It is likely to be included in the Press's Fall 2014 release catelogue.

It's amazing to think that some nine years have now gone by sincve the Outward Odyssey series was first mooted, but they have been nine extraordinary years in which a whole new cadre of space authors - most coming from within the realms of collectSPACE - have seized the opportunity to write a book, and I have to say all have succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.

posted 12-04-2012 03:31 PM               

The second exciting news is that UNP have asked me to explore the possibility of expanding the series beyond the current 12 volumes, and to stay on as series editor if that comes to pass. So as usual I am turning to the readers of collectSPACE for ideas. All the Outward Odyssey titles are listed elsewhere in this thread and I believe the past, present and future of space exploration has been fairly extensively covered in these 12 titles, but does anyone have any ideas they can post here on possible book concepts that I could consider? One thought I did have was to ask a multi-flown astronaut very well known to me to write or co-write a book on his experiences, but apart from this and a reissued "Fallen Astronauts" I'd also be looking at getting a further two titles under way.

So could I ask you to put on your collective thinking caps and come up with some ideas for the expansion of the Outward Odyssey series? Of course I will also be seeking authors for those volumes.

posted 12-04-2012 07:41 PM               

As for potential new topics, I'll strongly second poster onesmallstep's suggestion of a volume focused on the Apollo support personnel, especially the flight controllers and scientists. Reading Chaikin's A Man on the Moon and Murray & Cox's Apollo, as well as individual memoirs by people like Kranz, Kraft, and Sy Liebergot, really whet my appetite in this area. I'd love to know more from those involved about things like how they prepared themselves and the astronauts for their missions, their working relationships with the crews, and how they "teamed" with the astronauts to meet all their objectives while conducting the actual flights. I'd be particularly interested in firsthand accounts of the well-known tension between the engineering and scientific communities inside the Apollo program, and how this was mitigated to maximize the missions' value in both arenas.

Jay Gallentine did a fantastic job producing a collective memoir of the "earthbound astronauts" of humanity's early planetary explorations; I'd love to see a similar treatment given to the groundbounders of Apollo.

posted 12-06-2012 06:15 AM               

1. Women in space
   
2. Europeans in space and the role of ESA and its forerunners
   
3. Reassessment of von Braun and his team's contribution to the German and U.S. space programs
   
4. Science fiction as a predictor and motivator for space travel e.g. HG Wells, Heinlein, Bradbury, Asimov, Orson Scott Card, etc.

posted 12-06-2012 08:21 AM               

But there's a book about Women in Space, "Women in Space: Following Valentina", David Shayler, Ian Moule, Springer-Praxis, 2005.

There's also a title from Springer regarding Europe in space. ESA history is available from ESA's web site. There are two von Braun biographies by Michael Neufeld (2007) and Stuhlinger Ernst, Ordway Frederick (1996).

posted 12-06-2012 08:57 AM               

She wanted to write a book about the selection process for the original seven but now Colin has that title with “Selecting the Mercury Seven”. I’m not sure if there is enough new material for a second book so soon.

She is an excellent person to write NASA Brats if she has interest to write another book. “For Spacious Skies” took her five years, is very well written and also has the close personal experience. She herself is a NASA Brat and I’m sure friends with many other NASA Brats. Some were very young and unaware but some where old enough to understand the uniqueness of the career. Now 50 plus years later I find it interesting that only Richard Garriott followed his father into space. He had to do so as a space tourist but with his life long interest, passion and the training received he is certainly more of an astronaut than Senator Jake Garn and then Congressman Bill Nelson. There is one Russian cosmonaut who has a son that launched just before Richard.

NASA Brats would be very interesting and can include what some thought at the time when they lived so closely with other astronaut families and thought it an everyday experience to have Dad go to space and their thoughts now as an adult knowing how unique it was. Also many of today’s NASA Brats see Mom go to space. How many considered science or flight as a career and who thought of NASA as a career when they hit career age.

posted 12-06-2012 10:04 AM               

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There is one Russian cosmonaut who has a son that launched just before Richard.

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