Apollo 12: The NASA Mission Reports Vol 1: Apogee Books Space Series 7 [With CDROM]

Book Overview

The voyage of Apollo 12, documented in these original reports, had high goals in mind making a start on real lunar science." This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1896522548
• ISBN13: 9781896522548
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Collector's Guide Publishing
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Very Nice Complilation of Apollo 12 Mission Material

Robert Godwin and Apogee Books have over the years compiled a variety NASA documents, press kits, crew interviews and the like, which recount the early days of the space race, focusing on the Apollo missions. This time, they have released the first volume of information dedicated in the second lunar landing, Apollo 12, which followed the first lunar landing conducted by Apollo 11. This mission was commanded by Charles "Pete" Conrad who was accompanied to the surface by Alan Bean with Dick Gordon as the Command Module pilot. The book opens with the usual NASA mission press kit which provides a general, but descriptive overview of the mission. The next portions of the book contain the pre- and post-flight operations reports. The pre-flight report, an in-house NASA report, describes the planned activities of the mission, while the post-flight operations report, another NASA in-house report, documents the actual events and describes any discrepancies between the planned and actual activities. The final section, the debrief section, which is over 100 pages, contains the crew comments and feelings about various parts of the mission and contains a fair amount of the technical language and acronyms that many NASA documents include. The crew debrief contains crew comments from the suiting up phase to the landing, plus comments about the training (was it adequate). In this section there are numerous pages devoted to the precision landing made by the crew, the investigation of the Surveyor III lunar lander and the two moonwalks. I always find the crew debriefing quite enjoyable, because it is the closest thing to being there. The book also includes a CD which features a 30th anniversary interview with Command Module Pilot Captain Richard "Dick" Gordon and the NASA produced "Pinpoint For Science" and the entire EVA television transmissions. In addition, the CD includes the in flight press conference, five Quicktime panoramas of the landing site and over 2100 still black and white and color photographs. Some general information that might be useful. 1) This report is a set of scanned-in documents from a previously released NASA document. In order to preserve the spirit of the original reports, all typographical and grammatical errors have NOT been fixed. 2) Proceeds from the book goes to "The Watch" an asteroid impact research project of the Space Frontier Foundation. In other words, Apogee Books is making very little off the sale of US government produced books and documents. 3) Many people have asked why the post mission science reports are not included. Since NASA has published several books with hundred of pages each, the NASA Special Publications Series, it would be difficult to include this voluminous amount of data.

nasa mission reports:the best!

anyone that loves to read about the apollo expeditions to the moon; would be a fool not to invest in these mission reports! for the very small price they cost, you get so mush for with them. a lovely well-done book on that particular mission, along with a cd/rom that has volumes and unendless info; all on one small diskette. and finally, a sturdy/quality paperback book,that tells many of we space buffs,about certain missions, that previously were not covered [IN-DEBTH] AT THAT TIME IN HISTORY; WHETHER IT BE TELEVISION COVERAGE,NEWSPAPER COVERAGE,ETC... well! these reports will really refresh your memories,bring back memories,and tell us what we already wanted to know about a particular mission! all i and others i've showed this and other nasa mission reports to others and all hey and my wife and i can say about them is: very interesting!

Apollo 12-Greatest Lunar Adventure/Pinpoint Landing!

Charles"pETE" Conrad, Alan Bean and Richard F. Gordon were; to me, the nicest-most, down-to-earth of all lunar astros.! They were brilliant aviators and men-above-men who knew how to get a job done with remarkable precision; yet know how to be human, and have fun while being the best at what they do! Apollo 12 mission report is a necessity; because camera burnt out--1st color camera on moon coverage; and having this mission report is essential, because there was little coverage on film; due to their camera not working! I only wish that there could even be more done on Apollo 12/mission/men who made 1st and best pinpoint landing on lunar surface-The Ocean Of Storms, on November ' 69. i COULD OWN 1000 MORE OF SUCH REPORTS ON aPOLLO 12!

Excellent compilation of Apollo 12 documents

Once again another great book in the series. It puts in one place many of the most significant documents related to the flight of Apollo 12. It has a complete library of all of the 70mm photos. Most I suspect have never been published before. I've already come across some facts that I hadn't read before, such as the fact that Al Bean got knocked on the head by a camera during landing. Like it's companions in the series it is a wonderful source for space buffs. I just hope the series continues to document all the flights through Apollo 17.