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Title: Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon by Mike Gray ISBN: 0-14-023280-X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.16 (19 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Stormy Story
Comment: Makes engineering exciting.
Reminds me of the "Soul of a New Machine" - the story of the engineers behind the "product" - and in this case the product is the Apollo CM, SM, second stage, and engines - an enormous undertaking.
I work as an engineer for a manufacturing company with about 100 employees, building machines with maybe a thousand parts where we barely manage to get things out the door. So it is amazing a to read about the engineering behind a large scale effort that actually worked!
Well written, well paced.
I think a good technical level for the average reader.
Several of my co-workers enjoyed it, and found it quite memorable.
A lot of other books seem "pro-NASA" so it's refreshing to find a book that upsets the apple cart a little bit.
This book tells what was amazing about American industry in the early 1960s. The scary thing is look at the subsequent history of Rockwell today - the aerospace parts sold to Boeing - the electronics division spun off - the remaining chunk of the company (Allen-Bradley and Reliance) is something they bought up 5 years ago. Sad.
The Patriotic Line: America needs more books like this. Don't let your kids be accountants or lawyers.
Comparisons:
-More "serious" than "The Right Stuff".
-Better polish and more exciting than "Failure is Not an Option".
-Better than "Earthbound Astronauts".
-Briefer, harder-hitting and tighter than "The Reckoning"
-Covers a more important project than "Soul of a New Machine"
Rating: 3
Summary: An Interesting Story, but Can it be Believed?
Comment: This is a lively journalistic account of the career of Harrison Storms, president of the Aerospace Division of North American Aviation that built the Apollo capsule. Because of the Apollo 1 fire that killed three astronauts in January 1967, Storms and North American Aviation, Inc., got sucked into a controversy over accountability and responsibility. In the aftermath Storms was removed from responsibility for the project. The most important aspect of this book is its discussion of the Apollo fire and responsibility for it from the perspective of industry. It lays the blame at NASA's feet and argues that Storms and North American were mere scapegoats. It, unfortunately, has no notes and the observations offered in it cannot be verified. It is an interesting and lively account that should be balanced against the accident investigation records available on-line at: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Apollo204/
Rating: 5
Summary: Hero later; First came the skilled folks in the trenches.
Comment: Here's a great "engineer's read". Mike Gray's Angle of Attack primarily focuses on the behind the scenes story of the men and women of North American Aviation during the development of the Apollo command module and the second stage of the Saturn launch vehicle. But the author makes sure we understand the greater context by relating the roots of space exploration by seamlessly folding in the story of Germany's V2 rocket of the World War II era, and the work at the beginning of the 60's with North American Aviation's X-15 High Altitude Research Plane. And of course it's the story of Sputnik, Eisenhower, the creation of NASA, and a glimpse at just what it was like, at the height of the Cold War, when the two Superpowers, with nuclear missiles pointed at each other, embarked on a race to see who would be the first to put a man on the moon.
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Title: Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles by Roger E. Bilstein ISBN: 0813026911 Publisher: University Press of Florida Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight Series) by Thomas J. Kelly ISBN: 156098998X Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Virtual Apollo: A Pictorial Essay of the Engineering and Construction of the Apollo Command and Service Modules (Apogee Books Space Series) by Scott P. Sullivan ISBN: 1896522947 Publisher: Apogee Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Apollo Eecom: Journey of a Lifetime (Apogee Books Space Series) by Sy Liebergot, David M. Harland, Ron Howard ISBN: 1896522963 Publisher: Apogee Books Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Slide Rule by Nevil Shute ISBN: 1842322915 Publisher: House of Stratus Inc. Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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