books about: apollo

books about: apollo

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Apollo

Programming Flex 3: The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex

Chafic Kazoun, Joey Lott

Adobe Dev Library, 2008

A must have for every Flex Developer!
I just got my copy of Programming Flex 3 in the mail yesterday and have already found it to be extremely useful! Like most titles in O'Reilly's "Adobe Developer Library" series, the book is very well organized and contains useful and understandable examples. One thing ...

Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

Gene Kranz

Berkley Trade, 2001

Get this Candle lighted
Excellent account of the backstage of America's Space Program, you could really fill the atmosphere inside Mission Control,and the contribution made to it's success by a miriad of unknown Hero's.

In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969 (Outward Odyssey: A People's ...

Francis French, Colin Burgess

University of Nebraska Press, 2007

The Best Book I Have Ever Read
There are and have been hundreds if not thousands of books about manned spaceflight over the years but only a select few have really been able to communicate the true story and feeling generated by one of the most fondly remembered era's in American history. A time ...

Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon (Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 ...

Catherine Thimmesh

Houghton Mifflin, 2006

Will use this in class.
I will use this book in my middle school curriculum when I teach about space. When I showed it to students, they pretty much just looked at the pictures. After they watched "Apollo 13" it made a lot more sense to them. Then they wanted to understand more about the ...

Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys

Michael Collins

Cooper Square Press, 2001

Collins Sense of humor
Michele Collins sure has a unique personality, on one side he is a great American hero and history maker, on the other side his sense of humor is so overwhelming to let the reader feel close frindship with the man. Some of his comments made me laugh out loudly. I ...

How Apollo Flew to the Moon (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)

W. David Woods

Praxis, 2008

Best of the best
I have over 200 books on the early space program and the race to the moon but this book is by far the best and most detailed I have ever read on just how it was done. I couldn't put it down. If you ever wanted to know, for example, what every abort mode meant during ...

Moon Landing: Apollo 11 40th Anniversary Pop-Up
Richard Platt

Candlewick, 2008

"This wonderful book retells our story vividly. I should know; I was there." ? Buzz Aldrin Trace the history of people's fascination with the moon ? and the scientific developments that led to a ground-breaking mission ? in an out-of-this-world novelty book marking the first moon landing. Acclaimed author Richard Platt focuses on humankind's ...

The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space

Eugene Cernan, Donald A. Davis

St. Martin's Press, 1999

This book answers the question: What did it feel like?
When I started to read The Last Man on the Moon I wondered: What did it feel like to walk in space and on the moon? I got more than I bargained for. I enjoyed one of the greatest true adventures of all times when Cernan removed the shackles of the earth and took me ...

Full Moon

Michael Light

Knopf, 2002

Excellent High Resolution Print found nowhere else
I can use "picture book" to describe Full Moon, as images contributed as the major part of this book. Don't think that this book is not worth reading, indeed, it is on the contrary, this is an extraordinary book, because of the photos. There are a lot of astronomy ...

Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight

David A. Mindell

MIT Press, 2008

Computers in Space
While this book dwells more on computers than astronauts, it contains details from the actual moon landings that I've never seen published elsewhere. Despite contrary opinions by the astonauts, this book has convinced me that a 100% all-human landing (without ...

Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star, IV, Vol. 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (From ...

Coheed and Cambria

Hal Leonard Corporation, 2006

Excellent!
This is a great tab book. After I spent a little time listening to the songs and reading along from the book, I picked up my guitar and was rocking out. I expected nothing less.

Apollo 13

Jeffrey Kluger, James Lovell

Mariner Books, 2006

Read this book!
Sure, watch the movie! However, the book really brings the event closer to the human heart.

Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy

Jay Inslee, Bracken Hendricks

Island Press, 2007

The Four Horsemen of the Energy Apocalypse
Congressman Jay Inslee puts forth his view toward a solution to fuel prices and climate change. The field is rather crowded right now for books on this topic. Inslee approaches the angle of the economy and jobs more fully than his competitors. He remains more ...

Moonwalk: The First Trip to the Moon (Step-Into-Reading, Step 5)

Judy Donnelly

Random House Books for Young Readers, 1989

From a third grade reader in Goodyear, AZ, May 18th, 2000.
Moonwalk, The First Trip to the Moon, by Judy Donnelly and Dennis Davidson, was based on the United States Space Program in it's attempt to out do the Russian program. The U. S. wanted to put 2 men on the moon and after numerous tries and a few fatalities the U. S. ...

Apollo

Charles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox

South Mountain Books, 2004

Inner workings of humankind's greatest accomplishment
This is an excellent book covering the inner workings of the Apollo program. It does not focus on the astronauts or the missions themselves, but more about the people on the ground in Mission Control, the engineering challenges of Apollo, the management of the program, ...