01 October 2019
Moonshot: the flight of Apollo 11
... and folded spider”. One cannot expect the net-savvy, games-oriented children of today to engage with Apollo 11 any more than, say, the voyages of Columbus, but (given the right presentation) they can still...
14 March 2021
Apollo 13 Owners Workshop Manual
...published in 2013) to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 13 and offers “an engineering insight into how NASA ...went wrong”. Appendices provide additional engineering detail on the Apollo spacecraft – the command and service module (CSM) and...
31 December 2018
Rocket Men: the daring odyssey of Apollo 8
...assassinations that troubled America at the time. It’s clear from the Author’s Note that he was emotionally ‘sold’ on Apollo 8 from the moment he saw the recovered Command Module in a Chicago museum. Although he sees similarities in today’s political...
01 August 2019
Apollo’s Muse; the Moon in the age of photography
... books published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, this highly illustrated volume is published by... visual media go-to-guy, Tom Hanks, who (in considering the ‘was Apollo worth it’ question) opines: “Even the ranting of idiots who can...
01 October 2019
Moonfire: the epic journey of Apollo 11
... space aficionados who were around to experience it, the name of Norman Mailer will forever be associated with the Apollo programme because of his 1970 book A Fire on the Moon (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Mailer was already a well-known...
01 October 2019
Where Once We Stood - Stories of the Apollo astronauts who walked on the Moon
... repeats to himself. It kind of sums it up nicely”. The book itself is divided into six chapters (on Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17). The Apollo 11 chapter begins with a brief exchange between Armstrong and Aldrin as the former, on hands and knees...
