A graphic novel retelling of the space race. A nice 124 page condensed version. Even with my extreme space knowledge there were a few tidbits that even I never really considered. Interesting to see what was included and not included.
Some things of interest:
1) Caldwell C. Johnson, I never have heard his name but the authors used him as kind of the engineer to represent them all.
2) In the 50s the Russian used a roomful of women to do calculations...they called this their "computer"
3) Interesting to note that in 1960 the Russian's learned the dangers of using a pure oxygen in their capsule (although this was learned during a training exercise on the ground) and lost a cosmonaut...too bad they kept the info to themselves otherwise we could have saved three lives in 1967.
4) Amazing to think Gargarin parachuted out of his capsule to land...
5) Every pound to the moon takes 3 pounds of fuel to get it there!
6) I've mentioned the Apollo Guidance Computer before but to put its memory in a new perspective it had enough space for 4 seconds of a MP3 song!
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