Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module41 reviews
Thomas J. Kelly

Smithsonian, 2001

Excellent book for managers

+ Great intro to system engineering for engineering students & anyone who likes aerospace!
+ Interesting read
+ Moon Lander
+ A Hardcore Insight
  
  











  



  
Space Camp65 reviews
Kate Capshaw, Lea Thompson

MGM (Video & DVD), 2004

A Fun Movie With Bad Timing

+ Best chill out movie ever
+ Space Camp Review
+ A Must For Space Camp Fans
  
  











  



  
Weird Worlds Collection
John Archer, Warner Anderson

Image Entertainment, 2006

Leave that dreary old Planet Earth behind with four fantastic tales of interstellar adventure! Your first stop blasts into futuristic 1980 on The Phantom Planet where hapless astronauts are shrunk to a mere six inches tall and held captive in the middle of an alien war! Then grab a seat on the First Spaceship to Venus which races against time to reach the mystery-shrouded planet to ward off an ...
  
  











  



  
Apollo 13 (Widescreen 2-Disc Anniversary Edition)328 reviews
Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton

Universal Studios, 2005

Perfect For Everyone (especially Parents & Classrooms)

+ Great Movie
+ A very good and realistic movie about APOLLO 13 and human determination
+ Apollo13: The Story of REAL Heroes
  
  











  



  
The Shape of Things to Come (Penguin Classics)3 reviews
H.G. Wells

Penguin Classics, 2006

H. G. Wells - Conspirator.

_The Shape of Things to Come_ is the Penguin Classics edition of the novel first published in 1933 by the famous science fiction writer and British socialist H. G. Wells which provides an account of the "history of the future" and offers predictions as to what the future (at the time of writing) ...
  
  











  



  
Nasa Collection-Volume 12 reviews
Apollo 11

St Clair Vision, 2007

Star Struck

+ Time Capsule

Kudos to St Clair Vision for collecting and preserving these original NASA documentaries. This set weighs in at a generous 11 hours, 22 minutes on three DVDs. Here's what you get: Disc 1 - First Years of Exploration * Freedom 7 (first Mercury flight) * The Voyage of Friendship 7 (first ...
  
  











  



  
From the Earth to the Moon - The Signature Edition266 reviews
Tom Hanks, Krista Adair

HBO Home Video, 2005

From the earth to the moon

+ Simply the best!
+ A true reflection of the times
+ NASA at it's finest!
+ Brilliant! An amazing adventure
  
  











  



  
For All Mankind - Criterion Collection62 reviews
Jim Lovell, Kenneth Mattingly

Criterion, 2000

A Film That Is Truly "For All Mankind"

+ a really unique film
+ This is a must have

The Apollo Missions of the late 1960's and early 1970's were perhaps the greatest achievement in the history of humanity. Yet the real achievement and meaning has been lost on many of us. Here, in the film For All Mankind, is a chance to bring some meaning and depth to Apollo. Needless to say, it ...
  
  











  



  
Things to Come58 reviews
Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman

Legend, 2006

One of sci-fi's most underrated movies.

+ Predictions of the future
+ There sure is a future for Wells, but what a future !

It's a great movie and like the best sci-fi it has a solid story to complement the special effects, it's a prophetic story even anticipating WWII, and giving a social critique about man's relationship with technology and where ourfuture might lead us, solid acting, good story, but bear in mind that ...
  
  











  



  
The Right Stuff (Two-Disc Special Edition)144 reviews
Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn

Warner Home Video, 2003

The Right Stuff

+ Really the Right Stuff....
+ great movie!
+ This is just a fantastic movie!
  
  











  



  
Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles12 reviews
ROGER BILSTEIN

University Press of Florida, 2003

THE Saturn Story

+ Thorough but Dry
+ Saturn launch vehicle review
+ The Complete Story Of The Saturn Family
  
  











  



  
Voyages to the Moon and the Sun (New Travellers' Companion Series)
Cyrano de Bergerac

Olympia Press, 2008

Cyrano's (the real guy) greatest work, model for much of Gulliver's Travels, Munchausen and so many other fantasy books. First published in the 17th Century (Paris, of course), this elegant satire takes its hero into the solar system, where he then can freely speak on matters of sex, religion and humanity. Join the big guy as he wanders about the solar system, meeting up with Beast-Men, the ...
  
  











  



  
H.G. Wells' First Men in the Moon57 reviews
Edward Judd, Martha Hyer

Sony Pictures, 2002

A Real Gem

+ Not As Dated As You Think!
+ first men in the moon dvd

I remember watching this movie fondly while growing up in the 1960s. So, when I saw this finally advertised at a phenomenal price, I had to own it. Well, I'm glad I did. I had forgotten how funny and campy this movie is. Sure you can see the wires holding them up. Yes, those bug creatures look like ...
  
  











  



  
Project Moonbase and Others1 review
Robert A. Heinlein

Subterranean, 2008

Taking Hollywood for a Test Drive

This is a collection of TV scripts and treatments that Heinlein did for a proposed television series in 1952. The first item to notice here is the age of these scripts, done five years before the first Sputnik started beeping from the skies. The second is to recognize that most of these scripts ...
  
  











  



  
The First Men in the Moon (Penguin Classics)26 reviews
H.G. Wells

Penguin Classics, 2005

My favorite HG Wells book

+ THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON by H. G. Wells
+ Social commentary and great adventure!
+ Starblaze Classics Edition
  
  











  



  
Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1)537 reviews
Homer Hickam

Delta, 2000

Amazing True Story

+ If you were born in the 40s
+ escape via rocket
+ Charming and inspirational
  
  











  



  
Apollo 1354 reviews
Jeffrey Kluger, James Lovell

Mariner Books, 2006

Read this book!

+ I like this book!
+ Great Book
+ What a guy
  
  











  



  
NOVA - To the Moon28 reviews
Nova

WGBH Boston, 2000

Excellent

+ Great for the new enthusiast
+ The one I always go back to ...

This is one of the best shows on the Apollo program and I have seen and read about everything out there. It has great interviews and information not found any where else. This is Nova at its greatest, bravo!
  
  











  



  
...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age12 reviews
Walter A. McDougall

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

Insightful, Revealing and Ahead of its Time

+ The Entire Scope of the Space Age
+ It is no wonder that McDougall won a Pulitzer Prize!
+ Thorough and Easy to Follow
+ Up, up and beyond
  
  











  



  
Apollo21 reviews
Charles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox

South Mountain Books, 2004

Inner workings of humankind's greatest accomplishment

+ Behind the scenes at history's most expensive joyride
+ A band of unknown guys accomplishes the impossible.
+ The HIGH POINT of AMERICAN CREATIVITY
+ A Book Every System Engineer Should Read