Apollo: The Definitive Sourcebook (Springer Praxis Books) 2006th Edition by Richard W. Orloff (PDF)

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This book provides an overview of the origins of the Apollo program and descriptions of the ground facilities, launch vehicles and spacecraft that were developed in the quest to reach – and return from – the surface of the moon. It will serve as an invaluable single-volume sourcebook for space enthusiasts, space historians, journalists, and others. The text includes a comprehensive collection of tables listing facts and figures for each mission.

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⭐This is one helluva book! It is probably THE reference book for Apollo. I know I have not seen anything like it elsewhere.It contains details and minutia for every Apollo mission, both unmanned and manned. If you want to know when the Apollo 15 lunar module Falcon separated from the Command/Service Module, it is here. What was their altitude above the lunar surface at separation? It is here too. Hover time remaining at landing for any of the manned lunar modules? Easy-peasy, just look it up in the Appendices of this book. The authors have done a yeomen’s job of assembling and organizing this info into a single source that should be on the shelf of every space journalist and aficionado.Any negatives? Yes. While the picture selection for each mission is excellent, the reproductions of some seems curiously “flat.” I don’t know if it is the printing process or the paper quality, but some images seem to lack zing and contrast while others jump out at the reader.I can get moon images from other sources, the real treasures are all the little details this book contains. I cannot recommend this book enough, but remember that it is intended to be a source book (it says so in the title), not necessarily a narrative story of each Apollo mission. As for me, I suspect that within a month my copy of this book will be dog-eared and stuffed with post-it tabs.

⭐Although this book is just chock full of facts and figures, there is an actual narrative which is very well done and easy to read.This book focuses on the actual flights of Apollo starting with the unmanned launches of the Saturn 1 rockets all the way through. For every flight there is a story giving the main objectives of the mission, what actually happened during the mission then a post-mission comparison to see which goals were fully met, partially met etc.For every flight the times of the main mission points are also listed (including countdown and holds).For any fan of Apollo or the moonwalks this is an invaluable book and the authors have done an excellent job of combing through the missions, taking out all the salient points and presenting them in a excellent fashion. You can either read this book as a factual novel or can dip in and find facts for a specific flight very easily.Highly recommended for Apollo or NASA fans but not a book for the casual reader.

⭐A very detailed and fact filled book. It has all the technical details you would want on the Apollo program. I highly recommend this book to all the space nerds out there.

⭐The book may be the definitive sourcebook, but the only color photo is on the cover. The B&W photos are not of high quality, and I can understand that much material and information (the book has 633 pages) would be very expensive as a hard cover with quality color photos. Still for $48 a few color photos sprinkled throughout would be expected. Not so.But if you what details about Apollo, this book has them.

⭐This is it, the book of all the data in relationship to the Apollo missions! I saw this book in a gift shop and shrank from the price there, not so with Amazon. This book provides insight into the missions that captured the imagination of all nations.

⭐Good book, but it’s all but unreadable on a Kindle because it’s a straight-up scan of pages in the actual printed book.

⭐This book is fantastic…loads of facts and drawings, good pictures, overall an excellent look at the Apollo program. I wish there was a companion about Gemini!

⭐Excellent material covering all both unmanned and manned Apollo lunar programm flights. This is definitely not a technical stuff, this is factographical and chronological history of each of the Apollo missions from preparations to recoveries mapping all flight events in detail. Equiped with high quality b&w photos and a lot of tables covering – sometimes rather exotic – things like astronaut personal weights before and after the flight, rocket fuel consumptions and many others this book is a valuable source of Apollo missions facts. Highly recommended to all who want to have all basic flight informations in one place.

⭐I have read and enjoyed several of the Springer Praxis Space Exploration series of boks and this one was no execption. It’s not really a book for the casual reader, but for those of you with a keen interest in the Apollo Project, this book provides all the facts and figures you could want in one place. The authors have gone back to the original documents to ensure that the information presented is accurate. The book starts with a look at the deveolpment and testing of the various parts of the space craft, including the Saturn 1, 1b and V before going on to detail each mission. With over 600 pages, each flight is fully covered and has a set of tables that really do include just about everything you could possibly want to know about that mission from pre-launch through to recovery. So, if you are interested in the details that go beyond the scope of many books about the Moon landings, this is the volume for you.

⭐This just has to be the best Apollo history book I have… packed with facts and figures…I cannot stop reading it! Written in such a relaxed way too!

⭐Excellent source book

⭐ho regalato questo libro ad un amico appassionato dello spazio, che l’ha trovato molto interessante, grazie anche alla documentazione riportata. Un libro sicuramente consigliato. Ovviamente è fondamentale conoscere bene l’inglese essendo in lingua straniera.

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⭐Todo un compendio detallado del proyecto Apollo, incluyendo aspectos técnicos de todo tipo. No es un libro de lectura convencional, sino un manual de consulta con la referencia a todas las misiones y la evolución de las aeronaves y los sistemas de apoyo en tierra.

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