Thats the manual for an older configuration, not the one that flew to the moon.The CM hatch has the pre Apollo 1 fire design, and the booster is a Saturn 1B, not a Saturn 5. Does anybody know if something like this ist available for later configurations?
You seem to know a lot about Apollo - could you share some good sources to dive into on this please? I've always been interested so I thought of researching this in a lot more detail recently.
Depending how deep you want to dive into this rabbit-hole:
-How Apollo flew to the Moon: https://amzn.eu/d/1QtsN1D
Covers in my opinion all aspects of the Apollo/Saturn programme, including design, technology, procedures and a lot of history as well. A must read if you are interested in such things
-Moon Lander https://amzn.eu/d/bI3wpt7
Memoire of Thomas Kelly the chief engineer for the Lunar Lander. Gives great insights of the technical and management challenges while desiging the first "true" spaceship. Highly recommendet!
-Digital Apollo: https://amzn.eu/d/0KigTU9
Focuses on software development (actually an afterthought to hardware development) for the Command Module and the Moon Lander and on the important aspect how much controll should be given to the astronauts against automatic systems. Includes a very detailed analysis of the software alarms that almost compromised the first moon landing.
-Failure Is Not An Option: https://amzn.eu/d/ix6CWnq
The memoir of the Gene Kranz, the tough, no bullshit flight controller pictured in the Apollo 13 movie. Kranz was a key player in the manned space program for decades. Here we learn that almost each moon mission had critical moments and had to be saved by the teams at mission controll and the astronauts.
Other interesting books:
-Moon Launch: https://amzn.eu/d/1Z6U5f6 on Saturn Apollo Launch Operations
-Sunburst and Apollo: https://amzn.eu/d/2ms3IW8 a personal memoire of one of the software designers for the LM computer
Hope there is something interesting for you in the list.
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