We're back and it's 2023. Let's kick off the year with an episode discussing some of my favorite books I read last fall. There's a bit of SpaceX news at the beginning too, so give it a listen.
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Episode Links:
The Age of Radiance by Craig Nelson The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
Wingless Flight by R Dale Reed. Give the full PDF a read via NASA History.
R Dale Reed NASA Biography- https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/X-Press/50th_anniversary/driving_forces/driving_forces_p-r.html
Mayday Over Wichita by D.W. Carter Mayday Over Wichita: The Worst Military Aviation Disaster in Kansas History (Hardcover)
Piatt St. Park- https://www.wichita.gov/ParkandRec/CityParks/Pages/Piatt.aspx
The Age of Eisenhower- by William Hitchcock The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
Uravan Colorado- http://www.uravan.com/
Project Orion-
Death of a Project, by Freeman Dyson- https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.149.3680.141
Book- Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship
Nuclear Pulse Propulsion: Orion and Beyond- https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20000096503
