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Henry S.F. Cooper Jr.

Born

in Manhattan, The United States

November 24, 1933

Died

January 31, 2016

Genre

Nonfiction

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Henry Spotswood Fenimore (S. F.) Cooper Jr. is the author of eight books about NASA and space exploration, and was a longtime staff writer for the New Yorker. He lived in Cooperstown, New York.

He was a descendent of James Fenimore Cooper.

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Average rating: 4.08 · 1,158 ratings · 119 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed 4.09 avg rating — 1,075 ratings — published 1972 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A House in Space 3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1976 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Evening Star: Venus Observed really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Before Lift-off: The Making of a Space Shuttle Crew (New Series in NASA History) 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Search for Life on Mars: Evolution of an Idea really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1981 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thirteen: The Apollo Flight that Failed by Henry S.F. Cooper Jr., Christopher David (Narrator) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moonwreck : the true, tension-packed story of Apollo 13 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1975 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imaging Saturn: The Voyager Flights to Saturn 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1983 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moon Rocks 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apollo on the Moon liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1969 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“As additional precautions, Kranz requested that a two-hundred-foot radio antenna (called a deep-space dish) in Australia be added to the global network tracking and communicating with the spacecraft, and that additional computers at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland be what he called "cranked up" -- made ready for use. He also telephoned the Real Time Computer Complex on the ground floor of the Operations Wing to ask that an additional I.B.M. computer be brought onto the line.”
― Henry S.F. Cooper Jr., XIII: The Apollo Flight That Failed

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“He also telephoned the Real Time Computer Complex on the ground floor of the Operations Wing to ask that an additional big I.B.M. computer be brought onto the line.”
― Henry S.F. Cooper Jr., XIII: The Apollo Flight That Failed

tags: apollo, computers, history, science, space

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“Kranz said later that there were only a few things he would do differently if a similar crisis arose again, but one would be to pack off small groups of engineers to other rooms instead of having them all milling around in the same place.”
― Henry S.F. Cooper Jr., Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed

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