Research Catalog

Title

Virtual Apollo : a pictorial essay of the engineering and construction of the Apollo command and service modules : the historic spacecraft that took man to the moon / Scott P. Sullivan; with a foreword by Tom Hanks.

Author

Sullivan, Scott P.

Publication

Ontario, Canada : Collector's Guide Pub., c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hanks, Tom

Description

128 p. : chiefly col. ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

With this book, for the first time the public can become acquainted with the Apollo spacecraft in detail and learn the story of its design and construction. Full color drawings in exacting detail provide and inside and out views of the Command and Service Modules complete with details of construction and fabrication.The Apollo spacecraft is the most intricate and exacting machine ever built, and it had to be as near to perfect as it could be made, every time. With over 3 million components, a performance record of 99.9% would still leave 3,000 parts that could fail -- any one of which might result in the deaths of the crew. With the exception of Apollo 13, the spacecraft lived up to expectations on every lunar mission, and even Apollo 13, after a major explosion, managed to circle the Moon and bring its crew home safely.

Series Statement

Apogee books space series, 1496-6921

Uniform Title

Apogee Books space series

Subject

• Project Apollo (U.S.)
• Space vehicles > Design and construction > Pictorial works
• COMMAND SERVICE MODULES
• COMMAND MODULES
• APOLLO SPACECRAFT
• SPACECRAFT MODULES
• Apollo-project
• Ruimtevaartuigen

Genre/Form

• illustrated books.
• Illustrated works
• Pictorial works
• Ouvrages illustrés.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 1896522947
• 9781896522944

LCCN

^^2003446639

OCLC

• 51934751
• SCSB-11190329

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library