| ESCAPING GRAVITY My Quest To Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age Lori Garver Walter Isaacson (Foreword) Diversion Books, June 2022 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-63576-770-4 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-63576-770-9 | 280pp. | HC/FCI | $28.99 | |
| Page 52: | "Eight years later, when I returned to the Agency in 2008, I picked up the ball not much farther than where Dan had left it on the field." |
| Word order: S/B "down the field than where Dan had left it". |
| Page 61: | "I don't know many women or minorities who harken for the days when we didn't have the right to vote..." |
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| Page 74: | "Admiral Harold Gehman, a retired four-star admiral from the Navy was appointed as its Chair." |
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| Page 79: | "When the 2008 presidential campaign got underway, I was determined to be personally engaged." |
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| Page 95: | "The Ares I program has been underway for four years..." |
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| Page 115: | "Jamming a big new rocket into the budget five years earlier than planned, along with Orion and our own priorities was extremely unrealistic." |
| Missing comma: S/B "priorities, was". |
| Page 152: | "Twenty years after founding Blue Origin, the company has grown to have more than 3,500 employees..." |
| Dangling participle: S/B "after its founding, Blue Origin". |
| Page 152: | "Twenty years after founding Blue Origin, the company has grown to have more than 3,500 employees, with numerous development projects underway." |
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| Page 154: | "After touring Blue Origin's Seattle facility, Jeff invited me to visit his launch site in Texas." |
| Dangling participle: S/B "After I toured". |
| Page 159: | "The big prize—contracts to supply cargo to the Space Station—were announced by NASA that December." |
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| Page 162: | "People aren't laughing anymore." |
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| Page 165: | "I'm not sure either of us were accustom to consuming that much alcohol." |
| Number error, verb tense error: S/B "was accustomed". |
| Page 168: | "The intensity of the crowd's emotions piqued as the Falcon Heavy's twenty-seven engines cracked to life simultaneously..." |
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| Page 169: | "Still seen as disrupters, SpaceX has single-handedly..." |
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| Page 173: | "The intricate design, manufacturing, and operations of launching something into space is exceedingly more complex..." |
| Number error: S/B "are". |
| Page 174: | "...and them deliver them as promised. Consistently. Every parents dream." |
| Missing apostrophe: S/B "parent's". |
| Page 181: | "Trying to manage the program was like a giant game of whac-a-mole." |
| Spelling: S/B "whack-a-mole". (Although there is a kids' arcade game called "Whac-a-mole.") |
| Page 187: | "Joining me in staying out of the way was Gerst and the head of NASA's Space Station program..." |
| Number error: S/B "were". |
| Page 190: | "The scientists would get an up-close look at a very large, pristine sample of one of the most important and mysterious heavenly bodies thought to have carried life throughout the galaxy." |
| I'm not aware this is an accepted theory. |
| Page 190: | "...and recommended one of our best Center directors, Robert Lightfoot as his replacement." |
| Missing comma: S/B "Robert Lightfoot, as". |
| Page 200: | "It is probable that .01 percent of candidates could become outstanding astronauts." |
| This page lays out a process of three successive selections of 10% of candidates. The math is wrong: 10% * 10% * 10% = 0.1 * 0.1 * 0.1 = 0.001 = 0.1 percent |
| Page 216: | "Garrett cheered them on as one of the people who had helped build NASA's trust in SpaceX and embrace the company as a partner." |
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| Page 229: | "NASA is configuring a work around for the first few missions." |
| Extra space: S/B "workaround". |
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