Incidentally, the publisher of the AGC book, Praxis Publishing, has a whole collection of well-written, engaging, and technically deep books in their space exploration category, namely, 'How Apollo Flew to the Moon'. http://www.praxis-publishing.co.uk/books.php
So true. When will they learn? This instantly reminded me of Bruce Sterling's classic book, "The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier". A must-read if you enjoyed this post.