Space books

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RizzoTheRat

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Tuesday 8th November 2016
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I'm currently reading Michael Collins book "Carrying the fire" and really enjoying it. I understand Jean Cernan's "Last man on the moon" is supposed to be good, so plan to read that next. I believe the film of it may be on Netflix too.

However I've realise that I know absolutely nothing about the NASA space programme between Apollo and the Shuttle apart from the fact that Skylab came down over Australia in the last 70's. Any book recommendations?

RizzoTheRat

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Thursday 10th November 2016
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Bloody hell, Skylab looks huge inside!

RizzoTheRat

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Thursday 10th November 2016
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funkyrobot said:
That's what I thought. smile

Anyway, I've bought that book. Sorry Rizzo.
hehe I need to read Jean Cernan's one first anyway so plenty of time to trawl e-bay, Cernans appears to be available on kindle so might just accept not having the photos for convenience of buying.

RizzoTheRat

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Tuesday 15th November 2016
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Eric Mc said:
His name is Gene (rather than Jean).
Oops.

Finished Carrying the Fire the other night, very enjoyable read. When checking on the Kindle store for Cernan's book I noticed you can also buy the official NASA Apollo 17 debrief, not sure if that would be really interesting or too technical to understand.