free nasa ebooks - look a bit techy but possibly of interest

[TooLateForAName]

http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/ebooks/index.htm

[Eric Mc]

I have a few official NASA publications and they make fascinating reading.

The "geekiest" ones I have are two chronological records they produced in the 60s, one covering the development meetings covering the specification and design of the Gemini spacecraft and the other on the specification and design of the Apollo Command and Service Module.

They are essentially minutes of meetings but they do show the process of how these spacecraft evolved from original ideas into working pieces of equipment.

I also have their official history of the Apollo missions, which is also available online.

And their official account of the scientific experiments carried out on the lunar surface by the Apollo astronauts - and the results they yielded.

[TooLateForAName]

tbh Eric, you're the one I expected to have most interest in these.

Some of them look quite interesting.

[Mutley]

Looks like there could be some interesting reading. Think I'll have a download to the kindle tonight of a couple

[LimaDelta]

Thanks!

[Hooli]

They'll be going on my phone if I can work out how to add stuff to the kindle on there.

[Mutley]

add the mobi file to the kindle folder, hopefully will appear in your kindle

[Eric Mc]

One of my favourite NASA publications is this one. It was originally published in 1975. I bought my copy around 1982. It's available these days as a pdf for free download.

[anonymous-user]

Just read (skimmed) the "Breaking the Mishap Chain: Human Factors Lessons Learned from Aerospace Accidents and Incidents in Research, Flight Test, and Development" book. Fascinating, well worth a read for a scarily level headed analysis of some quite famous incidents!

[jonnyb]

Eric Mc said:

One of my favourite NASA publications is this one. It was originally published in 1975. I bought my copy around 1982. It's available these days as a pdf for free download.

Just ordered it off amazon. Looks like a great book, a free PDF just wont do it justice!

[Hooli]

Mutley said:

add the mobi file to the kindle folder, hopefully will appear in your kindle

On the phone's SD card?

[Eric Mc]

jonnyb said:

Just ordered it off amazon. Looks like a great book, a free PDF just wont do it justice!

The great thing is that the various chapters are written by some of the key people involved in the programme. Sadly, most of them are now dead.

[IanUAE]

Excellent, some more books to be uploaded to the iPad.

[rufusruffcutt]

Thanks for link OP, downloaded the X15 one and Reentry and recovery from space.

[Mutley]

Hooli said:

Mutley said:

add the mobi file to the kindle folder, hopefully will appear in your kindle

On the phone's SD card?

If that is where the Kindle folder is. Otherwise, add it to the documents folder and open it, selecting the Kindle app when asked what to open with

[Hooli]

Mutley said:

Hooli said:

Mutley said:

add the mobi file to the kindle folder, hopefully will appear in your kindle

On the phone's SD card?

If that is where the Kindle folder is. Otherwise, add it to the documents folder and open it, selecting the Kindle app when asked what to open with

Ta, I'll give it a go.

[RobGT81]

Breaking The Mishap Chain looks good, human factors training can/should be applied to all industries.

[jonnyb]

Eric Mc said:

jonnyb said:

Just ordered it off amazon. Looks like a great book, a free PDF just wont do it justice!

The great thing is that the various chapters are written by some of the key people involved in the programme. Sadly, most of them are now dead.

Book arrived today, I was right not to get the free PDF, some of the pictures are outstanding. It's also interesting that the chapter written about the actual Apollo 11 moon landing "the eagle has landed" was written by Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. No mention of Neil Armstrong, even in a NASA publication.