01 October 2019
Apollo 11 Owners’ Workshop Manual
... extra section providing “an insight into the legacy of Apollo”, including how it inspired such modern space visionaries as ... impressive illustrations is a double-page spread of the Apollo command module instrument panel, with its hundreds of switches...
01 January 2020
NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander kit
...lunar surface complete with crater, flag and two Lego-style Apollo astronauts. A well-produced colour booklet includes step-by-step ... pictures and a 12-page illustrated summary of the Apollo programme. The ascent and descent stages are separable...
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...
