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Title: Apollo 8: The NASA Mission Reports (Apogee Books Space Series) by Robert Godwin, Apogee Books ISBN: 1-896522-66-1 Publisher: Collectors Guide Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Valuable technical background to a critical mission
Comment: This is the original book in the series, now revised and including the crew debriefing (my favorite part, as I keep saying) and other materials, including a Jim Lovell interview on the accompanying CD. I don't know what I can say about this volume that I haven't said about others in this series. Apollo 8 was a key step on the way to the moon and probably the riskiest mission in NASA history. This provides a valuable technical background to the mission and a useful accompaniment to more human-oriented books such as Jim Lovell's Lost Moon or Andrew Chaikin's A Man on the Moon.
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't miss the point: this is a collection, not an edition.
Comment: Reading these Apogee books is like leafing through a thick stack of mimeographs. Robert Godwin's decision to leave the documents essentially "as-is" (leaving spelling and punctuation errors, for example) and to publish as much relevant material as he could find in the archives (similar, but not identical reports) allows you, the reader, to process the information yourself, as if you had gone to the archives to do research. If as a reader you are uncomfortable with the idea of developing the narrative on your own out of this raw material, these books may not be for you.
Rating: 3
Summary: Mostly pre-mission reports, a pity
Comment: The good point about this book is the technical detail. For example, a big cut-away diagram of the first stage rocket showing fuel delivery system and nozzles. Also, complete launch sequence. The biggest disappointment was the fact that the whole book consists of pre-mission reports, and only the very briefest post-mission report. Where are the post-mission reports? Also disappointing is the fact that one report is almost identical to another! Some of the reports were scanned in, and so contain frequent spelling errors. Overall, worth it for the detailed technical stuff.
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Title: Apollo 7: The NASA Mission Reports (Apogee Books Space Series) by Robert Godwin ISBN: 1896522645 Publisher: Apogee Books Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Apollo 14: The NASA Mission Reports (Apogee Books Space Series) by Robert Godwin ISBN: 1896522564 Publisher: Apogee Books Pub. Date: 20 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Apollo 17: The NASA Mission Reports (Apogee Books Space Series) by Robert Godwin, Harrison Schmitt ISBN: 1896522599 Publisher: Apogee Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Apollo 16: The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 1 (Apogee Books Space Series) by Robert Godwin ISBN: 1896522580 Publisher: Apogee Books Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Apollo 13: The NASA Mission Reports (Apogee Books Space Series) by Robert Godwin ISBN: 1896522556 Publisher: Collector's Guide Pub Pub. Date: 22 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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