Angle of Attack
by Mike Gray · first published 1992
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Apollo, the most ambitious engineering project ever undertaken by man: to build a rocket 36 stories high, load it with the explosive power of a nuclear device, put men on top of it, and shoot it at the moon - this is a task more complicated by far than the Manhattan Project and the Panama Canal combined. Angle of Attack is the story of one of America's most triumphant achievements: two decades later the Apollo Mission stands as a stirring reminder of what this country is capable of when the chips are down. In the panic that follows the Soviet launch of Sputnik, it is Harrison Storms, the legen
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There's an excellent book called Angle of Attack by Mike Gray that follows North American's development of their part of Apollo, as well as touching on the immense efforts of all the other contractors in the program. It's not too long a book and reads…
on “Boeing Starliner's flight's flaws show “fundamental problem,” NASA says” ↗_Angle of Attack_ by Mike Gray is a good one about Apollo, specifically about North American Aviation and how they built one of the Apollo stages (and a bunch of other neat flying things!). Lots of information but definitely…
on “The red warning light on Richard Branson’s space flight” ↗Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon, by Mike Gray.
on “Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things” ↗…airplane development, which had a lot of moving fast and breaking things (and people.) Ironically, if von Braun had got what he wanted then, there may have been no Moon race and no Apollo program. [1] Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon, Mike Gray, ISBN 978-0393325133
on “NASA reveals delay for Hubble successor” ↗The book "Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon" by Mike Gray, was published in 1992 to 1994, so it is available at low cost at AbeBooks. https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?cm_sp=SearchF...
on “Building Apollo” ↗