Apollo 9: The NASA Mission Reports: Apogee Books Space Series 2 [With CD]

Book Overview

'Apollo 9' finally puts in one place four of the most important documents from this auspicious flight: the Apollo 9 press kit; the Apollo 9 pre-flight mission operation report; the Apollo 9 post... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1896522513
• ISBN13: 9781896522517
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Collector's Guide Publishing
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Reference on an Important Mission

Apollo 9 was where Apollo really came together--first manned LM flight, first Apollo docking, first in-space test of the moon suits. This book brings a wealth of information to the fore. Just about everything you want to know about Apollo 9. A must have for space buffs.

An exellent view into the workings of Apollo

This book shows the interoir of Apollo, the systems and the people like no other book or WWW site. The CD is very useful and, although the book is mostly black and white there are diograms almost everypage, most of which are clearly readable (some have been compressed to fit the page, in which cases any keys or labals are printed else where). There are about 1400 images taken of earth and of the other spacecraft along whith recent pictures of the inside of the spacecraft taken a few years ago.

Great material on the 'forgotten' Apollo mission

Apollos 9 and 10, juxtaposed as they were between humanity's first trip to another celestial body and the 'giant leap for mankind,' tend to be overlooked but in many respects were more important to the ultimate success of the landing missions than even Apollo 8. 8 was bold but didn't really advance the knowledge about the systems that would get men to the moon. Apollo 9 stands as a significant engineering achievement, by demonstrating for the first time the major components of a lunar landing mission - extraction of the LEM from the S-IVB stage, CSM/LEM separation and docking, flight of the LEM ascent and descent stages, EVA with the self-contained lunar spacesuit. Apogee's books contain a wealth of information that would be difficult (if not impossible) to find elsewhere, and the inclusion of a CD-ROM with many photos and video makes this a must-have for any Apollo nut.