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Title: Apollo 7: The NASA Mission Reports (Apogee Books Space Series) by Robert Godwin ISBN: 1-896522-64-5 Publisher: Apogee Books Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Apollo 7
Comment: In October 1968, just nine months before NASA landed on the moon, Apollo 7 was launched in space to test the lunar spacecraft on a trip that lasted 10 days before it landed in the Atlantic Ocean, as long as it would later take to get humans to the moon. Apollo 7 was the first successful manned launch of the Saturn 1B rocket. Its crew tested each circuit and thoroughly tested and documented each on-board system. Live television was transmitted back to Earth for the first time. This tenth book in a 12-book series contains a press kit that describes the planned mission and its objectives; a prelaunch mission operation report (51 pages); a postlaunch mission operations report (five pages), and a technical debriefing in two parts covering 141 pages, about half the book. The debriefing is detailed and contains the astronauts' comments about the flight. The book's CD-ROM is readable by at least a Windows 95/Pentium 90 combination. As in each of the other books in the series the figures and tables are often small and sometimes unreadable. Recommended for readers who seek detailed information on the flight. All levels.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent sources, the nuts and bolts of space enthusiasm
Comment: The "NASA Mission Reports" series, compiled by Robert Godwin, offers collections of essentially unedited original documents from the flights of the golden age of space exploration: press kits, operation reports, crew debriefings, the works. Since there is only a brief introduction to get things going, the casual reader will certainly be overwhelmed by the technical and operational detail. The decision not to "polish" these sometimes rather plain-looking documents in any way, or even edit out spelling errors from the original sources, gives the books a slightly "messy" quality. However, for these very reasons the series is a dream come true for the serious space enthusiast or historian: this is the real thing, a wealth of unaltered, unabridged information directly from the NASA archives. Holding history in your hands.
Apollo 7 was the first manned launch in the lunar landing program, essentially an engineering shakedown flight. In most accounts, the crew would become notorious because they, suffering from head colds and boredom, managed to annoy pretty much everybody in the space program. However, it's easy to forget what an enormous task Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham had on their hands: the longest first flight of any spacecraft in history, and a highly complicated one at that. This is the mission that paved the way for the triumph of Apollos 8 and 11.
This particular volume of the series includes the official Press Kit, Pre Launch and Post Launch Mission Operation Reports, the Technical Debriefing of the crew, and a CD-ROM with video and picture material. Since Apollo 7 would test the Command and Service Module in Earth orbit (not carrying the LM), and was also the first manned launch of a Saturn I-B rocket, this is the book to have for information on the CSM and booster. The documents describe all the spacecraft systems in great detail, and the changes made since the Apollo 1 fire. The crew debriefing, naturally, is full of technical jargon and the acronyms which NASA so dearly loves, but offers unique insights into all aspects of the mission. Hundreds of diagrams, tables, drawings and photographs (some colour) round out the book.
The CD features the official 15-minute NASA mission video, some launch footage, recent interviews with Wally Schirra (who still loves to make people laugh) and Walt Cunningham, and several hundred orbital photographs taken by the crew. While Apollo 7 might not have been the most spectacular flight ever, Robert Godwin's treatment leaves nothing to be desired: as usual, the "NASA Mission Reports" offer a prime collection of excellent material.
Rating: 5
Summary: CM and Crew Support Info Galore!
Comment: If you are looking for information on the CSM (heavily the CM) then this is the NASA Mission Report for you! Since this mission was the shakedown flight for the Apollo CSM, a majority of the material is related to that. There is also a good summary of the changes made from the Apollo 1 Block I module to Apollo 7's Block II Command Module. There is also a lot of information about life support, including the "Waste Management System" and such.
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Title: Apollo 14: The NASA Mission Reports (Apogee Books Space Series) by Robert Godwin ISBN: 1896522564 Publisher: Apogee Books Pub. Date: 20 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Apollo 8: The NASA Mission Reports (Apogee Books Space Series) by Robert Godwin, Apogee Books ISBN: 1896522661 Publisher: Collectors Guide Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Apollo 12: The NASA Mission Reports (Apogee Books Space Series) by Robert Godwin ISBN: 1896522548 Publisher: Apogee Books Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Apollo 17: The NASA Mission Reports (Apogee Books Space Series) by Robert Godwin, Harrison Schmitt ISBN: 1896522599 Publisher: Apogee Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Apollo 16: The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 1 (Apogee Books Space Series) by Robert Godwin ISBN: 1896522580 Publisher: Apogee Books Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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