Customer Reviews
Two Engineering Marvels! - By: C. Clayton, 27 Aug 2008 
The Service Module & Command module are incredibly complex engineering marvels that carried the Apollo astronauts to the moon (and back)in the harsh space environment. The command module also brought the astronauts through the earth's atmosphere safely home. As an engineer by education & experience I find these vehicles breathe taking.
It is fascinating to see the complexity of all the systems on the vehicles. Extremely well illustrated, this book provides an excellent overview into the work that went into developing them. One can see by the sophistication of the vehicles that the training necessary for the astronauts to competently operate them was serious business. Even more amazing is that this is just the high level view of these vehicles. Each of the systems: Radar, propulsions, life support, instrumentation (and more) have many more layers of complexity!
This book & Virtual LM a about the lunar module (also written by Scott Sullivan) are both worth the read for anyone interestedin the space program or engineering marvels, or both!
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Virtual Apollo - By: Roger Adams, 06 Feb 2007 Superb. This thin book is a feast of detail on the CSM. I've always had difficulty imagining how the astronauts fit this strange conical spaceship & this book has fixed it. It'll make watching film of themin the CM much less confusing. I've never seen diagrams from NASA, & I've searched, that do what this book has done. Full colour throughout & a good selection of aspects to detail. I can't fault it. The best addition would be getting into a real one.
A must-have for space technology buffs - By: Moshulu, 03 Feb 2005 This is a marvelous compendium of drawings, as is the companion volume on the Lunar Module. Three quibbles only: some of the drawings could use a scale indicator (say, a virtual rod with a standard length) & astronaut figures would be helpful sometimes. I was a bit disappointed at not being able to read the markings on the CM control panels (as you canin the LM volume). But these are minor points.
Looking at these books really took me back to the days of Apollo. I can't help thinking that a similar effort today would not be workable, & not justin terms of funding/organisation/motivation, butin terms of technology as well!
Excellent engineering images of the Apollo CM and SM - By: , 23 Nov 2003 A truly superb book which shows a tremendous amount of technical detail on the Apollo Command & Service modules.
I hope the author is doing a similar treatment of the Lunar Module. My recommendation? If you are a space tech enthusiast this book is a must have. Buy it & enjoy the many pictures. If you need further descriptions get it from the NASA web sites but these pictures are unique.
Virtually complete ! - By: , 27 May 2003 
Big on pictures, short on words. For those interestedin the construction & details of the Apollo Command/Service Modules, this book is amazing. Full of computer generated images of every aspect of the CSM it is a modellers heaven.
The author must have spent hundreds of hours painstakingly entering numbers to render these images.
If I only have one critisism of this title, it is the fact that I was left wanting a "Virtual Apollo" on CD-ROM to explore for myself ! Had the CD-ROM completed the package, this would have been a five star item !
I pray that the author is working on a Lunar Module version at this very moment.
