Space Policy Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List

Wondering what to ask Santa to get you?   Need help picking something for your sweetie?  Here are some good space policy gift ideas that might fit the bill.

These two books are relatively recent releases that we've read and highly recommend.

• Becoming Spacefarers:  Rescuing America's Space Program, by James A. Vedda
• The Laws of Spaceflight:  A Guidebook for New Space Lawyers, by Matthew J. Kleiman, Jenifer K. Lamie, and Maria-Vittoria "Guigi" Carminati

These are somewhat older, but also at the top of the list. 

• John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon, by John M. Logsdon.  If you're rushed for time, start with the last chapter where John picks out the highlights of the historical story he's told and connects them to today's situation.
• Falling Back to Earth: A First Hand Account of the Great Space Race and the End of the Cold War, by Mark Albrecht.  An insider's account of the first Bush presidency's (1989-1992) goals for the U.S. human spaceflight program and what happened to them, and how U.S.-Soviet/Russian space relationships changed with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

We haven't had a chance to read this one, but the author is a renowned space historian so we're sure it's terrific.

• Apollo:  A Retrospective Analysis, by Roger Launius

A subscription to the quarterly journal, Space Policy, would keep you or your space policy aficionado up to date on space policy analysis from the world's leading thinkers throughout the year.

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