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Summary: how a team work can achieve any goal
Review: This book perfectly explains the huge techinical effort which was behind the Apollo Program. Through the charismatic character of Harrison Storms, Mike Gray makes us understand how important was the team work in such a gigantic project. Unfortunately, the end is not exactly the one i expected, but this is not an author's fault, since history really went that way.
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Summary: An Interesting Story, but Can it be Believed?
Review: This is a lively journalistic account of the career of Harrison Storms, president of the Aerospace Division of North American Aviation that built the Apollo capsule. Because of the Apollo 1 fire that killed three astronauts in January 1967, Storms and North American Aviation, Inc., got sucked into a controversy over accountability and responsibility. In the aftermath Storms was removed from responsibility for the project. The most important aspect of this book is its discussion of the Apollo fire and responsibility for it from the perspective of industry. It lays the blame at NASA's feet and argues that Storms and North American were mere scapegoats. It, unfortunately, has no notes and the observations offered in it cannot be verified. It is an interesting and lively account that should be balanced against the accident investigation records available on-line at: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Apollo204/
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Summary: Interesting but Biased
Review: This is an interesting book -if your interested in this kind of thing. The main problem is how biased it is toward North American Aviation. NAA could do no wrong. The book leads you to beleive that we would not ave made it to the moon without Harrison Storms and his men. So, read it with a grain of salt. It's a good look at the Apollo program--from behind the scenes (no geeky astronaut worship).
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Summary: The Right Stuff in Rotten Prose
Review: This is surely one of the most crappiest books in history: an action-packed thriller composed entirely of hackneyed cliches. Gray has attempted to imitate Tom Wolfe, and the result is utterly embarrassing. A cautionary tale of how an enormous budget of borrowed style can create a malfunctioning missile of cornball awshucks hero-worship: great engineering demolished by god-awful banality. 'Angle of Attack' is a lunar landscape of everything that is worn-out, over-done and terminally stale, but it deserves an 'A' for enthusiasm.
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Summary: Spectacular! Apollo from the Contractors point of view.
Review: This is the only space book that I have ever read that focused on the design and development team, instead of the usual NASA & Astronaut worship.I believe it accurately portrays what it was like to work for a North American, actually designing and building the Apollo spacecraft. The Apollo project was ultimately successfull because of the phenomenal effort of thousands of people working for both the contractors and NASA. Many reviewers have focused on who they believe are the "good guys" and who were the "bad guys". I think this is a mistake - in reality there were good and bad decisions made by both NASA and their contractors. Harrison Storms and others at North American deserve to be recognized along with their NASA courterparts for the magnificent achievement that was Apollo. Most of the Apollo histories are dominated by the NASA perspective; this book is invaluable because it shows things from the contractor point of view. Anyone that is interested in the Apollo program should be interested in both sides of the story, and this book is a must-read.
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Summary: Spectacular! Apollo from the Contractors point of view.
Review: This is the only space book that I have ever read that focused on the design and development team, instead of the usual NASA & Astronaut worship. I believe it accurately portrays what it was like to work for a North American, actually designing and building the Apollo spacecraft. The Apollo project was ultimately successfull because of the phenomenal effort of thousands of people working for both the contractors and NASA. Many reviewers have focused on who they believe are the "good guys" and who were the "bad guys". I think this is a mistake - in reality there were good and bad decisions made by both NASA and their contractors. Harrison Storms and others at North American deserve to be recognized along with their NASA courterparts for the magnificent achievement that was Apollo. Most of the Apollo histories are dominated by the NASA perspective; this book is invaluable because it shows things from the contractor point of view. Anyone that is interested in the Apollo program should be interested in both sides of the story, and this book is a must-read.
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