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Derek Lyons wrote:
David Findlay wrote:
This has been discussed before, but in the interests of traffic, here
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What do you think are the essential books for readers of sci.space.*?

For which readers? The students of history? The engineers? The
mars-at-all-costs crowd?

Okay, some categories:

History:
Failure is not an Option, Gene Kranz

There is a lot of these. For the basics of American spaceflight, Baker's
A History of Manned Spaceflight is hard to beat. (Conspiracy fans should
do a compare&contrast between Baker's Soviet history and what is know
today.)

How could you not include Chaiken's A Man on the Moon?

Kranz' book is good. His boss' (Flight, Chris Kraft) is better. Collin's
Carrying the Fire is better than either.
--
Kevin Willoughby oSpam

Imagine that, a FROG ON-OFF switch, hardly the work
for test pilots. -- Mike Collins