Apollo 10: The NASA Mission Reports: Apogee Books Space Series 4 Review

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(More customer reviews)Like the Apollo 8 volume, this, too, is a revised edition, with my favorite part (the crew debriefing), plus other materials added to the accompanying CD.
Apollo 10 can aptly be called the full dress rehearsal for the moon landing. All that was skipped was the landing (and following activities) itself. The crew was one of the most experienced and distinguished in NASA history: Tom Stafford went on to command Apollo-Soyuz, John Young went on to command Apollo 16, the first shuttle mission, and to head up the astronaut office, and Gene Cernan went on to become the last man on the moon, on Apollo 17. And so far as I know, this mission and Apollo 11 are the only ones in NASA history to have all-experienced crews.
As usual, the text includes the pre-mission press and internal reports, and the post-mission summaries and crew debriefings. The accompanying CD contains hundreds of photos from the mission as well as the official NASA videos.
Another valuable volume for the space enthusiast.

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The four official NASA documents collected in this volume narrate the Apollo 10 mission.

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Apollo 8: The NASA Mission Reports: Apogee Books Space Series 1 Review

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(More customer reviews)Reading these Apogee books is like leafing through a thick stack of mimeographs. Robert Godwin's decision to leave the documents essentially "as-is" (leaving spelling and punctuation errors, for example)and to publish as much relevant material as he could find in the archives(similar, but not identical reports) allows you, the reader, to process theinformation yourself, as if you had gone to the archives to do research. Ifas a reader you are uncomfortable with the idea of developing the narrativeon your own out of this raw material, these books may not be for you.

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On December 21, 1968 the National Aeronautics & Space Administration sent three men to orbit the moon.

Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot Willam Anders were to be the first living creatures to enter deep space. It was the boldest step yet taken in the quest to fulfill President John Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

To accomplish the task the world's biggest and most complex machine was built by a syndicate of America's leading aerospace manufacturers. The Apollo-Saturn V was a goliath and the flight of Apollo 8 proved it was an incredible vehicle.

Capable of throwing over 100,000 pounds to the moon it was at that time the most complex machine ever devised by the hand of man.

Apollo 8: The NASA Mission Reports finally puts in one place six of the most important documents from this triumphant odyssey, The Press Kit, The Pre-mission Report & Objectives, The Supplemental Technical Report, The Post Flight Summary, the Post Flight Mission Operation Report and the Crew Debriefing.

These six documents show the staggering proportions of the undertaking required to send men into lunar orbit. It is a testament to the ingenuity of the American people and the bold courage of three men.

Includes: CD-ROM with Captain Lovell Interview, plus hundreds of pictures!

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