Apollo

by Shayler David

The structure of Apollo - The Lost and Forgotten Missions follows the development and in flight testing of the Apollo lunar spacecraft prior to Apollo 11 as well as missions planned following that first landing. Drawing upon combinations of archival documentation from the first four manned Apollo missions and future mission plans evolved in the summer of 1969 Apollo - The Lost and Forgotten Missions will fill this void. The text explains how the machines and the men were prepared for the landing on the moon and what would have followed the initial landings.

Genres: Nonfiction, Space

374 pages, Paperback

First published August 26, 2002

Reviews

[Clay Davis]

The most poignant title of a book I have read. An excellent catalog of the Apollo program. Needed another edit to catch the typos.

[Martin Greaves]

I had high hopes for this book as I love everything Apollo ever since seeing the missions as a small boy. Unfortunately there are two issues with this book.

First, are large chunk of it is tables and lists of data lacking context. It's as if the author acquired 100s of NASA technical documents and pasted them in. It's not so much something you read and learn from, more a compilation of data.

Secondly, it suffers from the same problem as Shayler's book about Skylab in that it is littered with typos. There are so many it becomes distracting and in many cases confusing as the typos and grammar errors can change the intended meaning so you end up trying to work out what the sentence was supposed to say.

[Xeldrak]

A great book if you want to get into the really nitty-gritty stuff sorounding the Apollo Program.