Product Description

This stunning volume brings the Apollo adventure to life in a spectacular retrospective encompassing all fifteen missions. An expert in space exploration, Dr Reynolds presents a reconstruction of all key events and people in the Apollo program. From the experiences of the astronauts themselves to the men of extraordinary vision and skill who built reality out of a dream, Reynolds captures the drama of this epic journey.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #702745 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

Customer Reviews

Beautifully illustrated and well written
Great coverage of the topic and very comprehensive. I have collected many books which describe the whole Apollo mission history and background, but rarely has anything come close to the lavish colour illustrations on virtually every page, the 4 page foldouts of a Saturn 5 and the moonscape panoramas. The books typesetting is creative and the text descriptive and well balanced with the details. And about time too...

Nice pictures, shame about the text!
I ordered this book and waited with baited breath for its publication and arrival. It looks the part and has a striking picture on the cover and there are lots of glossy photos and some nice diagrams-I especially like the drawing of the stages of the powered descent phase of the LM landing with altitudes and horizontal velocities etc. something I've never seen before.

However, the text is slightly lacking in detail. The author seems to skip many essential points and even makes the odd error (1201 alarm flashing up on the DSKY-which if i remember correctly is the keypad to input data and prog chages etc). The author completely ignored Apollo 14's inability to make an initially successful hard dock with the LM-a nail biting part of the mission! Apollo 12 is described in about half a page!

This book is aesthetically pleasing and a good introduction to the Apollo story-some parts are very informative (mainly because of good drawings) whereas others are sevearly lacking. I'd recommend to those with limited experience of the area and for its pictures-but the accounts of the missions are not so complete.

excellent overview of the apollo program
If you liked the movie Apollo 13 and Tom Hanks' series From the Earth to the Moon and want to know more about the Apollo program, this book is the best on the shelf. It summarizes all aspects of Apollo well and does so with an excellent selection of photographs. The quality of the book - weighty, large format, glossy paper - makes it an excellent present. It won't be meaty enough for engineering types, but add Andrew Chaiken's book From the Earth to the Moon and Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins' Carrying the Fire to your order and you will have a very enjoyable and informative mini collection of Apollo reading.