Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted July 29, 2015 Aerosoft Share Posted July 29, 2015 Think you will enjoy this great ARS article!http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/07/no-a-checklist-error-did-not-almost-derail-the-first-moon-landing/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deputy Sheriffs Tom A320 4915 Posted July 29, 2015 Deputy Sheriffs Share Posted July 29, 2015 On this matter I can highly recommend the following book:The Apollo Guidance ComputerArchitecture and Operationhttp://www.amazon.com/Apollo-Guidance-Computer-Architecture-Operation/dp/1441908765/And yes, the mentioned book:How Apollo Flew to the Moonhttp://www.amazon.com/Apollo-Springer-Praxis-Books-Exploration/dp/1441971785is the most comprehensive technical compendium of the Apollo program. It is worth to mention that the core of the navigational software of the Apollo Guidance Computer is even nowadays still in use in everything that leaves the earth orbit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acra24 83 Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Incredible engineering and flying. I hope I'm around to see the first Mars landing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deputy Sheriffs Tom A320 4915 Posted July 29, 2015 Deputy Sheriffs Share Posted July 29, 2015 And one more recommendation:If you are interested in mission control and the work of all the flight controllers, this book nails it:Apollo EECOMJourney of a Lifetimeby Sy Liebergothttp://www.amazon.com/Apollo-EECOM-Journey-Lifetime-Apogee/dp/1896522963/It comes with hours of recordings of the audio backbone of mission control.The Apollo 13 part is of course also covered and it really is impressive how highly professionally they handled the situation, totally calm and highly focused. ATC sometimes sounds different Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deputy Sheriffs mopperle 4162 Posted July 29, 2015 Deputy Sheriffs Share Posted July 29, 2015 Or this one: Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight http://amzn.com/0262516101and this one "Apollo The Definitive Sourcebook" http://amzn.com/0387300430Would also be a nice new "simulator" project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deputy Sheriffs Tom A320 4915 Posted July 29, 2015 Deputy Sheriffs Share Posted July 29, 2015 They are all good! Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deputy Sheriffs Tom A320 4915 Posted July 29, 2015 Deputy Sheriffs Share Posted July 29, 2015 Mathijs, there is one book that might be of interest especially for you as Product Manager:Moon LanderHow We Developed the Apollo Lunar Moduleby Thomas J. Kelly http://www.amazon.com/Moon-Lander-Developed-Smithsonian-Spaceflight/dp/1588342735/Thomas Kelly was product manager for the lunar lander at Grumman and had to build the LM within 8 years out of nothing. I have read that book multiple times and I really learned quite a lot from it for my daily work. The dedication to detail, the ability to include every ones opinion, to push everything and everyone together forward, to make decisions and to stand to them, to be able to accept wrong decisions and recover from that in no time, ... In short, in my opinion this is the book every product/project manager should sleep with under his pillow.I had more then once nearly tears in my eyes when I compared the chaos in projects I was involved in (not as lead) with the story Thomas Kelly tells. Unfortunately people like him are quite rare...In the late 90th Tom Hanks produced a TV mini series "From the Earth to the Moon" telling the story of the entire Apollo program after he made the Apollo 13 movie. He dedicated one complete episode to Thomas Kelly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted July 30, 2015 Author Aerosoft Share Posted July 30, 2015 Just bought that for my Kindle, thanks for the tip! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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