Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (575 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 026201520X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 380 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fairleigh Brooks said Top notch - offers a parallax view for space cadets. As a certified space cadet I have read dozens of books about the history of space exploration and manned space flight, many more on aviation and astronomy. (I own a book, for example, called "Eject! The Complete History of U.S. Aircraft Escape Systems. Actually, it's pretty interesting.)Virtually all of these books, excepting Mailer's "Of a Fire on the Moon," of course, were written by the anointed for the choir. They focus narrowly, or not too broadly, anyway, on a specific subject and the straightforward tangents of that subj. "International Latex Corporation's A7L" according to Dave English. A beautiful bountiful book. This is a high quality look at the design (and what that design means to us in other contexts) of the Apollo spacesuit. It covers a lot of ground, engineered as the suits were, with handcrafted layers that perform many different yet interrelated functions. So we have chapters on the actual construction of the suit, and chapters on cities and simulation and JFK. It's sometimes wordy, is not afraid of big concepts, but it is always lively. A flexible mix of human and technical interactions. The point i. Five Stars***** Dave S. Physically, "Fashioning Apollo" is quite an elegant book (even though it is soft-bound with a "rubberized" dust cover). Text and photos are all of superb quality, glossy throughout; and it has a nice smell to it (something you'll never get from a Kindle).If you're looking for a nuts and bolts technical book, this isn't the book for you. There are several other excellent texts that fit that bill. This is more of a series of essays on a variety of subjects, not always directly related to the spacesuit, but somehow always returnin
How the twenty-one-layer Apollo spacesuit, made by Playtex, was a triumph of intimacy over engineering.
Nicholas de Monchaux is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley. . His work has appeared in the architectural journal Log, the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Architectural Design, and other publications
Above all, it illuminates the relevance of this race for designers from yesterday and today.– ANTOINE PICON, Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, Harvard Graduate School of Design…This surely is one of the most deeply researched books on design ever written.– RALPH CAPLAN, author of _By Design: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and Other Object Lessonsde Monchaux offers in this remarkable book a far-reaching and broad-based analysis of the spacesuit, interpreting it as far more than a functional garment protecting astronauts but also as an artifact at the nexus of society, science, and spacefaring– ROGER LAUNIUS, Senior Curator, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The most delightful and memorable new book I read last year– Adam Gop