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Apollo Book
page has various books on Apollo Missions and Astronauts,
NASA's Moon Program,
Wernher von
Braun, Apollo 11 First Men on the Moon and other Apollo Books. Refer
to Moon
Book page for other related books.
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Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher
von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race by
Wayne Biddle (September 2009)
A stunning
investigation of the roots of the first moon landing forty
years ago. This illuminating story of the dawn of the
space age reaches back to the reactionary modernism of the
Third Reich, using the life of “rocket scientist” Wernher
von Braun as its narrative path through the crumbling of
Weimar Germany and the rise of the Nazi regime. Von Braun,
a blinkered opportunist who could apply only tunnel vision
to his meteoric career, stands as an archetype of myriad
twentieth century technologists who thrived under regimes
of military secrecy and unlimited money. His seamless
transformation from developer of the deadly V-2 ballistic
missile for Hitler to an American celebrity as the
supposed genius behind the golden years of the U.S. space
program in the 1950s and 1960s raises haunting questions
about the culture of the Cold War, the shared values of
technology in totalitarian and democratic societies, and
the imperatives of material progress.
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Apollo 11 Manual: An Insight into the Hardware from the
First Manned Mission to Land on the Moon (Hardcover)
by Chris Riley (Author), Phil Dolling (Author) (May 2009)
On 20 July 1969, US astronaut Neil Armstrong became the
first man to walk on the moon. This is the story of the
Apollo 11 mission and the 'space hardware' that made it
all possible. This manual looks at the evolution and
design of the mighty Saturn V rocket, the Command and
Service Modules, and the Lunar Module. It describes the
space suits worn by the crew and their special life
support systems. We learn about how the Apollo 11 mission
was flown - from launch procedures to 'flying' the Saturn
V and the 'LEM', and from moon walking to the earth
re-entry procedure.
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NASA's Moon Program: Paving the Way
for Apollo 11
by David M. Harland (Author) (July 2009)
David Harland here
initiates a series of books on NASA’s Moon Program of the
1960s and early 1970s. Presented chronologically, ‘NASA’s
Moon Program – The Early Years’ will outline the Mercury
and Gemini manned missions, the unmanned lunar probes and
the Apollo missions leading up to Apollo 11, covering that
mission only as a postscript. ‘The First Men on the Moon –
The Story of Apollo 11,’ released in 2006 is devoted
solely to that mission. ‘Apollo – The Definitive
Sourcebook,’ published in 2006, covered all the missions,
including the unmanned tests, in an encyclopedic style
which included many facts and figures. ‘Exploring the Moon
– The Apollo Expeditions,’ published in 1999, focused on
the final three Apollo missions, and covered only their
activities on the lunar surface. A fully re-illustrated
second edition with color illustrations was released in
2008. The individual mission books in this series will
relate to the planning, flight and results, and are
written in the same style as ‘The First Men on the Moon –
The Story of Apollo 11,’ i.e. using dialog from the
in-flight transcripts (including some conversations never
broadcast) to bring their stories to life. David Harland
will later cover the other five missions that landed on
the Moon, concluding by 2012 – the 40th anniversary of the
‘last’ Apollo mission. Each of the Apollo missions that
reached the Moon gets its own book-lenth account covering
planning, the flight, and the scientific results. This
series will become the definitive account of the Apollo
era. It will give the Springer/Praxis list unrivaled
coverage of the Apollo era of space exploration. Plans are
already in the works for a return to the Moon by 2020 to
create a Moonbase.
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Digital Apollo: Human and Machine
in Spaceflight by David A. Mindell (Author) (May 2008)
This book looks at how human pilots
and automated systems worked together to achieve the
ultimate in flight - the lunar landings of NASA's Apollo
program. As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the
moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the
guidance computer's software nearly caused a mission
abort. Neil Armstrong responded by switching off the
automatic mode and taking direct control. He stopped
monitoring the computer and began flying the spacecraft,
relying on skill to land it and earning praise for a
triumph of human over machine. In "Digital Apollo",
engineer-historian David Mindell takes this famous moment
as a starting point for an exploration of the relationship
between humans and computers in the Apollo program. In
each of the six Apollo landings, the astronaut in command
seized control from the computer and landed with his hand
on the stick. Mindell recounts the story of astronauts'
desire to control their spacecraft in parallel with the
history of the Apollo Guidance Computer.
From the early days of aviation
through the birth of spaceflight, test pilots and
astronauts sought to be more than "spam in a can" despite
the automatic controls, digital computers, and software
developed by engineers. "Digital Apollo" examines the
design and execution of each of the six Apollo moon
landings, drawing on transcripts and data telemetry from
the flights, astronaut interviews, and NASA's extensive
archives. Mindell's exploration of how human pilots and
automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate
in flight - a lunar landing - traces and reframes the
debate over the future of humans and automation in space.
The results have implications for any venture in which
human roles seem threatened by automated systems, whether
it is the work at our desktops or the future of
exploration.
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Von Braun:
Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War
by Michael J. Neufeld (Author) (October 2007)
Offers a multifaceted portrait of
the visionary German scientist who became the chief rocket
engineer of the Third Reich, creator of the V-2 rocket,
reluctant SS officer, and one of the fathers of the U.S.
space program.
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Other
Apollo Books
A History of the Kennedy
Space Center by Kenneth
Lipartito, Orville R. Butler (June 2007)
From
Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk,
Amazon.ca
How
Apollo Flew to the Moon by
W. David Woods (Author) (February 2008)
From
Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk,
Amazon.ca,
eCampus.com,
The Lunar
Exploration Scrapbook by Robert Godwin
(December 2007)
From
Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk,
Amazon.ca,
eCampus.com
The First
Men on the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11
by David M. Harland (October 2006)
From
Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk
Apollo: The Definitive Sourcebook by Richard W. Orloff,
David M. Harland (April 2006)
From
Amazon.com
Return to the Moon:
Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space
by Harrison H. Schmitt
From
Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk,
Amazon.ca,
Walmart.com
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R.
Hansen (October 2005)
From
Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk,
Amazon.ca
The
Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in
Space by Eugene Cernan
From
Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk
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