ReviewBooks
NASA Moon Missions: 1969-1972 (Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16 And 17) Operations Manual by David Baker (book review).
When I read Haynes’ Apollo 11 and 13 books earlier in the year, I did wonder why the other Apollo Moon flights hadn’t…
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June 2019
October 2018
ReviewBooks
NASA 1958 Onwards: Operation Manual by David Baker (book review).
Contrary to the title, ‘NASA 1958 Onwards: Operation Manual’, the USA’s interest in space flight goes back as far as 1915 when they…
February 2018
ReviewBooks
NASA Skylab: 1969 To 1979 (All Modules) by David Baker (book review).
In many ways, looking back, the NASA Skylab was a makeshift idea on a budget. Take a section of the Apollo rocket and…
January 2018
ReviewBooks
Nuclear Weapons Operations Manual by David Baker (book review).
Author David Baker points out in his introduction to his book, ‘Nuclear Weapons Operations Manual’, that it does not make moral or political…
May 2017
ReviewBooks
NASA Mercury: 1956 to 1963 by David Baker (book review).
In many respects, I have always wondered why Haynes left a look at NASA’s Mercury Program until last of their space books. At…
June 2015
ReviewBooks
Rocket: 1942 Onwards: Owners’ Workshop Manual by David Baker (book review).
If you want to get a spaceship into orbit, then you need a rocket to propel it there. Ever since the Chinese developed…
January 2015
ReviewBooks
Soyuz Owners’ Workshop Manual: 1967 Onwards (All Models) by David Baker (book review).
If you thought that the ‘Soyuz Owners’ Workshop Manual’ was solely, as astronaut Helen Sharman calls ‘a workhorse’, about the Soyuz, you’d be…
May 2013
ReviewBooks
NASA Mars Rover 1997-2013 (Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity And Curiosity) Owners’ Workshop Manual by David Baker (book review).
Oddly, considering how close, relatively speaking, Mars is to Earth, the proportion of speculation as to what was there to actually going to…
October 2012
ReviewBooks
International Space Station: 1998-2011 (All Stages) by David Baker (book review).
You might have thought until now that I was only going to be reviewing Haynes fantasy output, but knowing what some of the…