posted 10-15-2019 12:35 AM               

Apogee Mission Reports

• Freedom 7, Friendship 7, Sigma 7
  
• Gemini 6, 7, 12
  
• Apollo 7
  
• Space Shuttle STS 1-5
  
• Women astronauts (CD missing)

• NASA SP-4201: This New Ocean
  
• NASA SP-4203: On the Shoulders of Titans
  
• NASA SP-4209: The Partnership (ASTP)
  
• Hall, et al: Russia´s Cosmonauts
  
• Columbia Accident Report Vol. 1 (Aug. 2003)

posted 10-28-2019 08:10 AM               

• Freedom 7, Friendship 7
  
• GT-6, GT-7
  
• Apollo 7, Space Shuttle STS 1-5
  
• NASA SP 4201, 4203

posted 10-29-2019 02:55 AM               

1. It would have taken me several lifetimes to read them.

2. I don't remember much of what I read.

3. It took a long time to finally acknowledge that my interest in manned spaceflight is close to zero. I like the artistic part of it — the nuts and bolts of it, no.

4. I couldn't even display them due to a lack of place (not that it would have made a big difference anyway).

5. Consequently:

   a. if you've been to the post office lately, at least here in Switzerland, forget about selling books. Shipping is outrageous (and you can find those books elsewhere cheaper).

   b. Donate them? Nobody wants them. Individuals, organizations, universities, charities, nobody wants books anymore (and certainly not technical stuff in English), believe me I tried. I even offered to help move them...

   c. So since I wouldn't have read them anyway (who will seriously read the Apogee Missions reports series?), that I got fed up with those 50 cardboard boxes (600+ books) taking way too much room in my flat, the recycled paper containers were the only option left.

Strangely enough I thought it would have saddened me but quite the contrary, I thought it was quite a relief, borderline therapeutic, not to see those boxes anymore.

posted 11-03-2019 05:30 PM            

In defense of the Apogee series, I don't think they were ever intended to be read from cover to cover! They are reference books, to be dipped into for information.

As I near completion of my biography of Ron Evans, I have been utterly astounded at how useful my own multi-hundred book collection has been. There hasn't been a day when I haven't found myself thinking: "Aha! That was mentioned in such-and-such report" or "So-and so's biography covers that subject." I have regularly felt that it is almost as if I had known in advance, when buying these books, that I would one day need almost all of them.

I hasten to add that I'm certainly not writing some sort of Frankenstein-monster book cobbled together from other works. But frequently an astronaut's comment or observation confirms other sources, and it would be a foolish writer who tackles the biography of Ron Evans without (re-)reading "The Last Man on the Moon."

posted 11-04-2019 03:34 AM               

I was successful with my books and DVDs, I was able to sell nearly everything (without becoming rich ).

On the other hand the NASA lithos attracted nobody (I might have asked too much though). Well, with everything available on the internet who would buy old lithos? Nobody from the younger generation can imagine today what fantastic feeling it was fifty years ago to find the big yellow NASA envelope full of lithos in the post box, especially here in Eastern Europe.

posted 11-18-2019 06:40 AM               

• Apogee Books MR Friendship 7
  
• Apogee Books MR Gemini 6
  
• Spacecraftfilms Saturn-1B 3-DVD set

posted 11-25-2019 03:44 PM               

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Originally posted by crash:
They were so well wrapped that I reckon it took longer to unwrap than to reach me from Slovakia.

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