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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Apollo 2-6
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Date: Sat, 11-Aug-84 20:08:19 EDT
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People have asked how to get "Chariots for Apollo" and the other books
I mentioned, and it seems to be of sufficiently wide interest to post it.

"C. for A." is a detailed history of the Apollo spacecraft; the others cover
the Saturn boosters and the KSC launch facilities.  These are very thorough
and very detailed; the thinnest of them is over 500 pages.  They are full
of fascinating tidbits (like the vacuum-chamber rehearsal of the Apollo 11
lunar-surface procedures that was aborted when Armstrong reported, "Houston,
this is Apollo 11.  We can't get the hatch open.").  Highly recommended.

The books are softcover only, but cost much less than I remembered.  I
ordered a bunch of other things at the same time, and must have gotten
the prices confused.

They are NASA publications, orderable from:

	Superintendent of Documents
	U.S. Government Printing Office
	Washington, DC 20402

The three books in question, with USGPO stock numbers and prices (as of
about a year ago) are:

Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft.
	S/N 033-000-00768-0	$12.00

Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations.
	S/N 033-000-00740-0	$13.00

Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles.
	S/N 033-000-00794-0	$12.00

Checks and money orders should be payable to "Superintendent of Documents".
They take Visa and M/C.  Foreign customers: no checks, add 25% for mailing.
Allow 4 weeks.  Phone orders at (202)783-3238, 8-4 Eastern Time.

You might want to ask for some of their Subject Bibliographies, which are
lists of publications on specific topics.  The one I ordered from is
SB-297, "Space, Rockets, and Satellites".  I'm not sure these are free,
but I don't know how much they'd cost; I didn't get my copy of SB-297 by mail.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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