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Summary: What an era!
Review: As I mentioned in my review of the Apollo 11 book in this series, I bought this for the CD-ROM. The video documentary is excellent. It even features footage of the old tracking stations at Muchea and Woomera in Australia.This was a great moment in the 'space race' and it fascinating to flick through the drawing and plans. The debriefing is also interesting...what were those fireflys? Well worth your investment.
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Summary: Key reference to a key mission
Review: From the climax of the manned spaceflight program I go to the beginning, and quite a change it is. The heart of this collection are a series of reports compiled about every aspect of John Glenn's brief but historic flight, covering the whole thing in excrutiating detail-after all, no one had done anything like this before. (Gene Kranz is coauthor of one of them.) It even includes a transcript of all the air-to-ground communications throughout the entire mission, not something that could be done very easily for Apollo. Another key reference book for the true spaceophile.
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Summary: fantastic
Review: If you're a space-junkie, you will definitely want this book. Included are in-depth technical drawings, the complete ground-to-space communciations log of the mission, lots of great color photos, plus a CD-ROM with official NASA video of the Friendship 7 flight. Find out what made John Glenn such an enduring icon of this century. A wonderful glimpse into the early days of the space race.
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Summary: fantastic
Review: The book and CD are fantastic, especially at such a modest price. The CD worked for me without any hassle at all (I have a fairly recent Win98 SE installation, with nothing fancy.) The 60 minutes of mpeg on the CD are worth the price, alone. Reading Glen's mission report was really fascinating -- I've never seen that before. I'd have expected something a lot more formal and stilted, but he's always been a nice straight guy.
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