Spaceflight: A Historical Encyclopeida (3 volumes) In the single largest undertaking of his writing career to date, Pat has authored Spaceflight: A Historical Encyclopedia, which has just been published in three volumes by Greenwood Press (an imprint of ABC-Clio Inc.). Covering the entire spectrum of humanity’s exploration of space, from the first half of the twentieth century to the present, the Encyclopedia features a total of 650,000 words. Through biographies, histories of the space programs of the U.S. and Russia and other nations who have made significant contributions to the history of space exploration, the Encyclopedia tells the story of every crewed space launch and all major unmanned lunar and planetary missions, and includes a complete chronology of every Space Shuttle and Soyuz mission. The Foreword for the Encyclopedia is authored by Dr. Story Musgrave, the veteran NASA astronaut who has flown in space six times. To learn more about Story’s remarkable life and career, visit his website at www.storymusgrave.com An intense labor of love, the finished Encyclopedia represents a major leap forward for Pat, and a significant addition to the available reference works about the history of space exploration. Echoes Among the Stars: A Short History of the U.S. Space Program (Hardcover; Paperback; Kindle) Patrick’s first book, Echoes Among the Stars: A Short History of the U.S. Space Program (ISBN 0-7656-0537-6) was published by M.E. Sharpe, Inc. (Armonk, New York/London, England), in January, 2000. A second hardcover printing was released in June, 2000, and a paperback edition was published in August, 2000. Buzz Aldrin’s Comments About Echoes Buzz Aldrin, the second human being to walk on the Moon and one of the most celebrated astronauts in history, described Echoes Among the Stars as follows: In Echoes Among the Stars, Patrick Walsh does a great job of telling the comprehensive story of the manned space program in a short scope. He covers the Russian side of the story alongside that of the U.S. in the race to the moon, and he clearly shows the escalating momentum and achievements of the space program playing out against a national canvas of the declining domestic situation of the 1960s. This is one of the best books on the space program. Altogether a fine effort.
 -- Col. “Buzz” Aldrin, Gemini 12, Apollo 11 Echoes in Libraries In addition to sales to the general public in bookstores and online via outlets such as Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com, Echoes has also been purchased by hundreds of U.S. libraries and several public, academic and educational libraries and institutions around the world, including the University of Toronto Engineering and Computer Science Library; the European Southern Observatory Library in Santiago, Chile; the library of the City University of Hong Kong; the Royal Astronomical Society (London); and the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Reviews Echoes has been favorably reviewed by the Journal of American History (June, 2001), Book News (May, 2001), Science Book and Fiction (November, 2000), CHOICE magazine (September, 2000), the Library Journal (February, 2000), and Kirkus Reviews (December, 1999). The book’s original website, was favorably reviewed by About.com in September, 2000. Reader Comments
“A tantalizing in-depth analysis of the very real events of the space race, space exploration, the cosmonauts and astronauts, and other people who made it happen. . . . It’s illuminating and well-written . . . and as the international space station starts to become a reality, Walsh’s book will undoubtedly serve as a stepping stone from recent history into the events of the near future. He brings a complex and technical subject to life in a nonclinical manner that would be of interest to both educators and general audiences.”
 -- Alex Mendelsohn, Electronics Trade Press Editor, Kennebunk, Maine “Echoes Among the Stars succeeds very well as a short history of the space program . . . It is not “original scholarship,” but rather a popular treatment intended both for the general reading public and for undergraduates (or possibly well-prepared high school students). It reads very smoothly, and is especially successful in two ways: first, in its handling of technical//technological matters in an accessible way, and second, in its placing of the space program in the time period out of which it came and which it also reflected.”
 -- Lawson Bowling, Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York http://www.storymusgrave.comshapeimage_2_link_0
• Echoes Among the Stars:
• Buzz Aldrin called
  Echoes “one of the
  best books on the
  space program.”
 
• Two hardcover
  printings, followed
  by a paperback
  edition.
 
• Selected by more
  than 250 libraries
  throughout U.S.
  and around the
  world.
 
• Given an “A” by
  reads4teens.org,
  Carmel Clay Public
  Library, Carmel,
  Indiana, July, 2002.
 
• Cited as one of
  “Great Books on
  NASA” by Palm
  Beach County
  (Florida) Library
  System, 2006.
 
• Featured non-
  fiction selection in
  Morton Grove
  (Illinois) Public
  Library New Books
  Showcase, May,
  2000.
 
• Cited as a
  “Learning
  Resource” in
  National Honors
  Report article
  “Design Your Own
  Space Mission,”
  Spring, 2001.
 
• Textbook,
  American Studies
  courses at
  Manhattanville
  College, Purchase,
  NY, 2000.
Books
 
• Spaceflight: A Historical Encyclopedia
• Three volume print encyclopedia featuring extensive coverage of all human and all major robotic space flight programs.
 
• Extensive histories of the “First Era” of space exploration, including Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Vostok, Voskhod, astronauts, cosmonauts, satellite programs, and early international efforts.
 
• Detailed coverage of each U.S. Space Shuttle mission and every Soviet/Russian Soyuz flight through 2008.
 
• Coverage of international space programs and biographies of astronauts and cosmonauts from a wide array of nations around the globe.
 
Features:
• Stunning photos and informative illustrations
• Annotated multi-subject bibliography
• Appendices with chronological lists of human space flights and EVAs (spacewalks)
• Comprehensive index
• 699 articles; 650,000 words
 
Patrick J. Walsh
 
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