Europe's Space Programme: To Ariane and Beyond (Springer-Praxis Books) (Paperback)

"The book is split into seven chapters, covering early rocket development, the European rocket and satellite organizations a ] and their resultant merger as ESA, the national programmes, specific spacecraft programmes, manned spaceflight and a look towards the future. a ] The book is well illustrated with black and white photos. a ] It is a ] a well written and accessible account of Europea (TM)s achievements in space. a ] What the book does well is take the overview that a truly European programme deserves." (International Space Review, September, 2005)

"Brian Harveya (TM)s excellent retrospective looks beyond just the European Space Agency to cover all European space activities. a ] Harvey also shows how the multinational ESA finally made European space co-operation a reality, after years of trying." (Sean Blair, Astronomy Now, May, 2004)

"This book is a comprehensive account of the development of the European Space Programme a ] . The book highlights the contribution of the European Space Agencya (TM)s scientific work and its continuing technological achievements a ] . Europea (TM)s Space Programme gives a fascinating insight into the politics, science and organisation of the European Space work and the national enterprises involved. This is an important book a ] . This is a splendid book a ] . Everyone should read this book." (Richard Broughton, AURORA, November, 2003)

"This is a fine book, a good example of how to write technical text. Its subject matter, the development of the European space programme, although full of interesting characters and Machiavellian plot lines, in less-able hands may well have been handled in a ploddingly dull manner.Harvey brings it to life, not with literary fire but with careful explanations and enough detail to tell the story but not so much that it becomes a moronic fact sheet." (Barry Kent, The Observatory, Vol. 123 (1177), 2003)

"Europea (TM)s Space Programme: To Ariane and Beyond is a book well worth having on your reference shelf. It gives a detailed but highly digestible account of the birth of the ESA (European Space Agency) and its activities right up to the end of 2002, and is both useful and entertaining. a ] A five-page list of acronyms and abbreviations near the beginning of the book is convenient a ] . There are around 120 illustrations, many of them of significant historical interest." (Anna Nolan, Astronomy & Space, July, 2003)

"Europea (TM)s Space Programme is a book of great ambition. It attempts to describe Europea (TM)s achievements in space over the past 60 years, starting with the successful launch of the first V2 rocket a ] . Europe has witnessed such rapid and dramatic political and economic changes since then that Brian Harveya (TM)s ambitious venture deserves our admiration a ] . the book succeeds in presenting the European space effort as a major success." (Roger-Maurice Bonnet, Physics World, September, 2003)

"This is really a good reference book which fits nicely in the series of other space books that Springer has published in the last few years a ] . Brian Harveya (TM)s book is recommended to the readers." (Jos Heyman, News Bulletin of the Astronautical Society of Western Australia, Vol. 28 (8), 2003)