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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: 1-56098-998-X Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (34 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent description of life on a real engineering project
Comment: I bought this book hoping to learn the engineering secrets and insider trivia about the Lunar Module. The book includes this type of material although I was hoping for more engineering details.
However, the real value of this book is the experience Tom Kelly communicates about managing a complex engineering project. My experience is on much smaller aerospace projects but I totally recognized similar events, frustrations, failures, and successes. I suspect most readers find the management details dry and uninteresting but I found them to be gold nuggets of knowledge and, sometimes, inspiration. All of the technical details of building great engineering works such as a spacecraft can be completely figured out given no deadline or other constraints. But the real world challenge is figuring out how to do stuff that's never been done before with limited resources, insufficient budget, and short schedules. "Moon Lander" conveys this working environment very well. I would highly recommend this book to college engineering students and to people that would like to work in the aerospace field. This book tells the story of what it's REALLY like to work on an aerospace project.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Engineer's Apollo Story
Comment: To put it simply: This is a great book telling a great story about a great machine in a great space program. Go buy it and read it. In my view, no aerospace engineering history library is complete without this book, as it contains much still-relevant advice (alas, not always heeded) for modern projects.
I can assure you from my own experience, more than 30 years and the Atlantic ocean away, that Kelly's recounting of Grumman's part of the Apollo program is as close you'll ever get to being an engineer/manager in a large scale aerospace project without actually being there. Kelly's book conveys a hands-on feeling of the decade long strain as well as the day-to-day stress, and in general gives you an inside view of the many ups-and-downs of a leading engineering position in the Apollo program. To achieve all this in a single volume in a balanced manner is nothing short of impressive.
(I should have some idea about this; myself having worked for several years in the aerospace business as a project engineer, in a 10 years+ missile project spanning four cooperating nations, numbers of subcontractors, government research institutes, procurement agencies and supporting military units.)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Epic Journey of Faith, Hope, Trials and Triumph
Comment: The Lunar Module has always been my favorite of the Apollo spacecrafts. As a federal contractor I am always interested in the constuction of winning proposals. This book satisfied both of those interests. Mr. Kelly takes the reader on a journey in which (s)he encounters myriad emotions, degrees of failure and levels of success. He introduces you to signifigant players whose names will never become household. He meticulously describes the events and characters that made the Apollo's "Eagle" landing a reality. This is a ver important book and should be read my anyone who dares to dream. If you are indeed reading this review, trust me when I say that I am not easily impressed by much. This book impresses me. Buy it. Read it. Study it. You, too, will become impressed.
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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: The Unbroken Chain (Apogee Books Space Series) by Guenter Wendt, Russell Still ISBN: 189652284X Publisher: Apogee Books Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz ISBN: 0425179877 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 08 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Flight My Life in Mission Control by Christopher C. Kraft, Chris Kraft ISBN: 0452283043 Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc. Pub. Date: 26 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Last Man on the Moon : Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space by Don Davis ISBN: 0312199066 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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