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This may be a smidgen off-topic, but any good books to recommend about either the Apollo program or SpaceX that do delve a little deeper into engineering challe

• zlsa 5y ago
  Liftoff[0] by Eric Berger is a great book about the early days of SpaceX that I can highly recommend. [0]: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/liftoff-eric-berger?variant=32126620205090 https://www.harpercollins.com/products/liftoff-eric-berger?v...
• thatcherc 5y ago
  _Angle of Attack_ by Mike Gray is a good one about Apollo, specifically about North American Aviation and how they built one of the Apollo stages (and a bunch of other neat flying things!). Lots of information but definitely a fun read.
• jsrcout 5y ago
  Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4206/sp4206.htm https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4206/sp4206.htm
• rwmj 5y ago
  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apollo-Springer-Praxis-Books-Exploration/dp/0387716750/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apollo-Springer-Praxis-Books-Explor... "How Apollo Flew to the Moon" is a very detailed look at the technical aspects of Apollo.
• AndrewOMartin 5y ago
  This is a thread about book recommendations on rocketry. I feel obliged to mention Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press, 1972) now back in print. The author worked on said propellants between 1949 and 1970 (according to Wikipedia) so there's no SpaceX, but might be some Apollo. Anyway, the book is legendary.