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The
Unbroken Chain (Apogee Books Space Series)
by Guenter Wendt, Russell Still
Hardcover from Apogee Books
Book Published: October, 2001
A
Vision of Future Space Transportation (Apogee Books Space Series)
by Tim McElyea, David Brin
Paperback from Apogee Books
Book Published: 25 April, 2003
X-15: The NASA Mission Reports (Apogee Books Space Series)
by Robert Godwin
Paperback from Apogee Books
Book Published: January, 2001
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Apollo
13: The NASA Mission Reports (Apogee Books Space Series)
by Robert Godwin
A dream come true for dedicated space buffs, the NASA Mission Reports
series pulls together an almost overwhelming array of official NASA press
kits, operation reports, images, CD-ROM movies, and even dinner menus from
some of the space agency's most momentous missions, from Gemini 6 to the
many Mars launches.
Series editor Robert Godwin explains in his introduction why the failed
Apollo 13 mission (later of Tom Hanks-Ron Howard fame) is particularly
deserving of such detail-intensive attention: "Putting aside the high drama
of the events, the following documents reveal a side of NASA that is often
overlooked, the talents of the management and administrators." Those talents
are nowhere more evident than in the minutes from the House Science and
Astronautics Committee hearing, numerous internal NASA memos, and the previously
classified technical debriefing of the astronauts. Even the pre-mission
materials prove interesting, explaining with extensive diagrams the many
experiments that never reached the lunar surface.
As with the other excellent installments in the Mission Reports series,
the included CD-ROM backs up the already solid content with searchable
documents and choice images and movies, including a long interview with
Jim Lovell. (And while the CD works more smoothly on Windows, users on
other platforms shouldn't have to work too hard accessing its many jpegs
and mpegs.) --Paul Hughes - Amazon.com
Paperback from Collector's Guide Pub
Book Published: 22 March, 2000 |
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Apollo: A Pictorial Essay of the Engineering and Construction of the Apollo
Command and Service Modules (Apogee Books Space Series)
by Scott P. Sullivan
Paperback from Apogee Books
Book Published: May, 2003
Dyna-Soar:
Hypersonic Strategic Weapons System (Apogee Books Space Series)
by Robert Godwin
Book Description
Originally proposed in 1934 by an Austrian engineer by the name of
Eugen Sänger, it had the potential to be the ultimate super-weapon. Sänger's
design soon found its way into the hands of the Nazi regime in Germany
where it was refined at the Goring Institute.
In 1952 Walter Dornberger, a one-time German army general who had run
the rocket program at the infamous Peenemünde facility, sent an unsolicited
proposal to the Air Force on behalf of the Bell Aircraft Company. Dornberger
saw that Sänger's idea was still valid and that current technology was
catching up with the concept.
In 1954 the United States Air Force and the Bell Aircraft Company arranged
a contract for the study of an advanced, bomber-reconnaissance weapon system.
By June 1959 the whole idea had been dropped in the lap of the Boeing
company who had spent millions on research in their bid to win the coveted
contract. The new vehicle was to be called Dyna-Soar, a catchy abbreviation
which stood for Dynamic Soarer. This new vehicle would be able to be dispatched
to anywhere on Earth in a matter of hours and would provide the long-range
radar systems of the time only a three minute warning of its impending
arrival.
It was a Space Shuttle with a mission - to drop a weapon payload anywhere
on Earth and to do so while approaching its target at hypersonic velocity
- 18,000 miles per hour.
Between 1957 and 1963 the Dyna-Soar program consumed $430 million of
the US taxpayer's money. However, it never flew.
Cancelled less than two weeks after President Kennedy's assassination,
the Dyna-Soar (or X-20) was consigned to oblivion by the stroke of a pen.
Today, much of the research and technology acquired during the Dyna-Soar
program is still valid. Some of it went into the Space Shuttle and some
is still being used as background for the USAF Falcon program and NASA’s
Orbital Space Plane (OSP).
The story of Dyna-Soar is one of the great "what-ifs" of American aerospace
history. If it had been seen to completion it might have seen service as
a weapon, a shuttle, a life-boat for the space station, a tourist vehicle,
or in its proposed advanced versions even a conveyance for regular trips
to a moon base.
For the first time this book compiles many of the critical government
documents that tell the story of America's extraordinary lost spacecraft.
Over 100 B&W pictures, 16 pages of color pictures and over 200 drawings
and charts.
Paperback from Apogee Books
Book Published: July, 2003 |
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On
to Mars: Colonizing a New World (Apogee Books Space Series)
by Robert Zubrin, Frank Crossman
Paperback from Apogee Books
Book Published: August, 2002
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