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Title: Apollo 11: The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 3 (Apogee Books Space Series) by Robert Godwin, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration ISBN: 1-896522-85-8 Publisher: Apogee Books Pub. Date: March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: You Have To See This DVD
Comment: The book is what I've come to expect from Apogee. But the CD Rom included with this is worth twice the price of the whole package. I feel like I've just seen the landing for the first time. The EVA also is just wonderful. What brilliant use of technology Apogee.
My hat is off to you once again.
PS Please do the same with Pete Conrad's mission!!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Back to the Future
Comment: As has been noted by the other reviewers, a prime reason to get this book is the included DVD. The editor, Robert Godwin, has given all of us space historians/enthusiasts a remarkable gift. With great care, he has created real-time video of the lunar landing and walk. These help clarify this first exploration of the Moon. Besides that, the DVD includes typical tourist-type video taken by three men out on an adventure without their wives. Somehow the reality of the mission is intensified by the markedly amateur use of the video and movie cameras -- the jerky movements, the too-fast pans, etc. Video from lunar orbit is also included. To watch the lunar landscape roll beneath you in DVD-quality adds a sense of truly being there and understanding the awe that the astronauts must have felt. May this book be the first of many more Mission Reports which include a DVD. Many thanks to Robert Godwin.
Rating: 5
Summary: Buy it for the DVD, but don't forget about reading the book.
Comment: Robert Godwin and Apogee Books have, over the past three years, compiled a variety NASA documents, press kits, crew interviews and the like, which recount the early days of the space race, focusing on the Apollo missions. This time, they have released a third volume of information dedicated in the first lunar landing of Apollo 11, which includes a DVD of the lunar EVA and an excellent companion NASA publication. Apollo 11 was the only the third manned mission to the moon. This mission was commanded by Neil Armstrong who was accompanied to the surface by Buzz Aldrin with Michael Collins as the Command Module pilot. This latest entry deserves at least 6 stars and two thumbs up.
As is evident from this reviewer's comments as well as all of the other reviewer's comments, the primary reason to purchase this book is the DVD. This two-sided DVD contains the entire video and 16mm footage, plus many still pictures of the first moonwalk on one side and the entire 16mm camera footage on the other. It is clear to me and I'm sure from anyone who has watched this DVD, that this compilation was clearly a labor of love and to date is the most impressive video of any of the lunar EVA explorations that I have ever seen. What makes this DVD so impressive is that the producer has combined the video, 16 mm camera footage and audio transmission into one single presentation. This combined presentation, clearly allows the viewer comprehend all the activities that were undertaken during the Apollo 11 moonwalk. Furthermore, when one of the astronauts takes a still picture, the image appears on the screen and gives the viewer a clear idea of how, by whom and where the picture was taken. Regardless of whether or not you were alive to see the first moon landing live on TV, you definitely can relive the excitement of that wondrous time by watching this DVD.
The book that accompanies the DVD is a reprint of the Apollo 11 Mission Report prepared by the Mission Evaluation Team from the Manned Spaceflight Center in Houston. This report is essentially the scientific and engineering evaluation of the Apollo 11 flight. In these pages, there are many figures that show a comparison between a predicted value and an actual flight value (how much was used vs. how much was estimated). The lengthy report is over 200 pages long and covers all aspects of the mission, from liftoff, lunar landing, the moonwalk, the experiments, and the return to Earth. It also contains a fairly long chapter describing all of the flight anomalies (problems). Even though I've studied this mission and its moonwalk in depth, I was amazed at the number of problems that occurred during the flight to the moon. While some readers may the report's writing a bit dry in some places, they are actually getting a view of how NASA operates and why their exploration programs for the most part are quite successful.
Some general information that might be useful.
1) This report is a scanned-in documents from a previously released NASA document. In order to preserve the spirit of the original reports, all typographical and grammatical errors have NOT been fixed.
2) Proceeds from the book goes to "The Watch" an asteroid impact research project of the Space Frontier Foundation. In other words, Apogee Books is making very little off the sale of US government produced books and documents.
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