Forest Handford: 3 books

Rosa Alvarez's personal hero had always been Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space. Why hadn't her country, the country of her birth, been able to send a woman into space? Her family was touchy on the subject. She was chided as a kid not to talk about Valentina because America didn't like...

Entropy, the gradual decline to disorder: you can’t conceive the horror of entropy until you’ve lived in space. For Seung Shikun, maintaining SpaceHotel was far more about staying alive than about structural engineering. When an ad titled ‘Orphans Preferred’ was given to him by a friend, he...

Traveling into the future is easy. To a small extent anybody who has ever flown has traveled forward in time (faster than the rest of the world travels through time).  Traveling backwards through time however was impossible until the invention of the time machine.   Jared Mills and...