Digital Apollo

[occhamite]

Thanks for posting this. I probably would have passed this book over otherwise.

[jaram1000]

Love the books I have both....

[indiegun]

Nice review Mike. I'm going to check out Digital Apollo as soon as I can. I also had never heard of Tom Kelly's book on developing the LEM. Thanks for that.

If you get a minute, check out my video I did on Discovery's last mission. It shows VAB assembly, crawler rollout and the launch all set to a great piece of John Williams music!

/watch?v=Qj5tHzcMe0g

Thanks again for the uploads.

[ApolloWasReal]

I agree, this is an excellent book. A prime theme ran through the whole book: the proper balance of functionality between human pilot and spacecraft computer. Closely related is the design of the interface between man and machine once their functions have been defined. What made this such a fascinating read is that I recognized so many of these same debates and arguments from what might seem like entirely different areas in engineering than human space flight.

[sbmrunning]

Ty! excellent! i will go get this book !

[MightySaturn5]

thanks for this informative narative

[dkoska]

Right on, I agree with the review on this book. A good read.