This Is What Blogs Can Be.

[Whipsnade]

Gents,

Check out this BLOG and be prepared to lose a few hours.

By way of hinting what you'll find there, the blog's owner David S. F. Portree, describes himself as "... a space archive manager, a planetary map librarian, a science writer, a historian, an outreach educator, a widower, a single dad, and a geek."

He's also the author of monograph on manned Mars missions.


Regards,
Bill

 

[Starviking]

Gents,

Check out this BLOG and be prepared to lose a few hours.

By way of hinting what you'll find there, the blog's owner David S. F. Portree, describes himself as "... a space archive manager, a planetary map librarian, a science writer, a historian, an outreach educator, a widower, a single dad, and a geek."

He's also the author of monograph on manned Mars missions.


Regards,
Bill

Seconded! David's blog is just chock-a-block with lots of historical projects from the Apollo Era - he's also a sound man.

Eamon

 

[saundby]

Yes, an excellent blog. I first started reading what is now his personal blog:

http://portreeland.blogspot.com/

Where he had posts such as this:
http://portreeland.blogspot.com/2007/12/international-lunar-resources.html

In addition to Beyond Apollo, you'll want to check out:
http://robotexplorers.blogspot.com/

His blogs help me deal with the fact that working for myself means that I no longer have a huge corporate library to wade through. I used to enjoy checking out such things as the Nova vehicle proposals, design documents for manned Aerobees, and suchlike. Between these blogs and astronautix.com I manage to scratch that itch to some small degree. (Though I still miss things like being able to read Truax's original designer notes, and work through his numbers for myself with present day info--great way to spend your lunch breaks, I can tell you!)

Oh, here's first edition the book he's been working on for over two years now, I'm still looking forward to the new edition:
http://history.nasa.gov/monograph21/humans_to_Mars.htm

Other publications:
David Portree NASA pubs

You can also see some of his old website on the internet archive.