NASA Apollo 11: Owners' Workshop Manual

Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual

by Christopher Riley, Phil Dolling, Philip Dolling

On July 20, 1969, US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon. The Apollo 11 mission that carried them and fellow astronaut Michael Collins on their epic journey marked the successful culmination of a quest that, ironically, had begun in Nazi Germany thirty years before. This is the story of the Apollo 11 mission and the ‘space hardware’ that made it all possible. Author Chris Riley looks at the evolution and design of the mighty Saturn V rocket, the Command and Service Modules, and the Lunar Module. He also describes the space suits worn by the crew, with their special life support systems. Launch procedures are described, ‘flying’ the Saturn V, navigation, course correction ‘burns’, orbital rendezvous techniques, flying the LEM, moon landing, moon walk, take-off from the moon, and earth re-entry procedure. Includes performance data, fuels, biographies of Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins, Gene Kranz and Werner von Braun. Detailed appendices cover all of the Apollo missions, with full details of crews, spacecraft names and logos, mission priorities, moon landing sites, and the Lunar Rover.

Genres: Space, Science, Nonfiction, Technology, History, Engineering, Reference

160 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2009

Reviews

[Jonathan Jeckell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Absolutely gorgeous photos and illustrations accompanied by well written text to cover covering the road to the first manned moon landings and beyond. Not only does this show the final iteration of each of the pieces to the Apollo project, but a lot of the steps in between, showing many of the development paths attempted to get there.

While it contained a wealth of technical information using clear illustrations and comprehensible language, the one slight disappointment for me (especially considering it was billed as a Haynes Workshop Manual) was that it didn’t get down to the level where it would tell me how to troubleshoot problems and what tools to use and steps to take to swap out modules. But I reluctantly admit that would take a large collection of books and that my expectations might be considered a bit unrealistic. Still...

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am a firm believer in the proposition that a car is not really finished until I can buy the Haynes Manual. Somebody in England decided to put this out for the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 and the company had the staff to go to town with the idea. Great! Complete mind rot!

[Jim McGowan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really interesting history of the Apollo program, with lots of fascinating technological details for the space geeks.

[Joe Donohue · Rating 5 out of 5]

It made a great XMAS gift. I had to import it from Britain.