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Virtual Apollo: A Pictorial Essay of the Engineering and Construction of the Apollo Command and Service Modules (Apogee Books Space)

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Author: Scott P. Sullivan
Publisher: Collector's Guide Publishing
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 159462

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.9 x 0.4

ISBN: 1896522947
Dewey Decimal Number: 629
EAN: 9781896522944
ASIN: 1896522947

Publication Date: June 2003
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5 out of 5 stars

Two Engineering Marvels! August 27, 2008
The Service Module and Command module are incredibly complex engineering marvels that carried the Apollo astronauts to the moon (and back) in the harsh space environment. The command module also brought the astronauts through the earth's atmosphere safely home. As an engineer by education and experience I find these vehicles breathe taking.

It is fascinating to see the complexity of all the systems on the vehicles. Extremely well illustrated, this book provides an excellent overview into the work that went into developing them. One can see by the sophistication of the vehicles that the training necessary for the astronauts to competently operate them was serious business. Even more amazing is that this is just the high level view of these vehicles. Each of the systems: Radar, propulsions, life support, instrumentation (and more) have many more layers of complexity!

This book and Virtual LM a about the lunar module (also written by Scott Sullivan) are both worth the read for anyone interested in the space program or engineering marvels, or both!

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Virtual Apollo February 6, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Superb. This thin book is a feast of detail on the CSM. I've always had difficulty imagining how the astronauts fit this strange conical spaceship and this book has fixed it. It'll make watching film of them in the CM much less confusing. I've never seen diagrams from NASA, and I've searched, that do what this book has done. Full colour throughout and a good selection of aspects to detail. I can't fault it. The best addition would be getting into a real one.

5 out of 5 stars

A must-have for space technology buffs February 3, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

This is a marvelous compendium of drawings, as is the companion volume on the Lunar Module. Three quibbles only: some of the drawings could use a scale indicator (say, a virtual rod with a standard length) and astronaut figures would be helpful sometimes. I was a bit disappointed at not being able to read the markings on the CM control panels (as you can in the LM volume). But these are minor points.

Looking at these books really took me back to the days of Apollo. I can't help thinking that a similar effort today would not be workable, and not just in terms of funding/organisation/motivation, but in terms of technology as well!

5 out of 5 stars Excellent engineering images of the Apollo CM and SM November 23, 2003
11 out of 11 found this review helpful

A truly superb book which shows a tremendous amount of technical detail on the Apollo Command and Service modules.
I hope the author is doing a similar treatment of the Lunar Module. My recommendation? If you are a space tech enthusiast this book is a must have. Buy it and enjoy the many pictures. If you need further descriptions get it from the NASA web sites but these pictures are unique.

4 out of 5 stars Virtually complete ! May 27, 2003
15 out of 15 found this review helpful

Big on pictures, short on words. For those interested in the construction and details of the Apollo Command/Service Modules, this book is amazing. Full of computer generated images of every aspect of the CSM it is a modellers heaven.
The author must have spent hundreds of hours painstakingly entering numbers to render these images.
If I only have one critisism of this title, it is the fact that I was left wanting a "Virtual Apollo" on CD-ROM to explore for myself ! Had the CD-ROM completed the package, this would have been a five star item !

I pray that the author is working on a Lunar Module version at this very moment.