Picturing Apollo 11: Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments

I have collected 25 + Apollo ( including Apollo 11 ) related books over the last 35 years and if I had to keep one, this would be it ! Nothing else even comes close to capturing everything you would would ever need ( or want ) to know about apollo 11 and apollo in general. The only item that equals this book for attention to detail is the movie "Apollo 11" released 2019 by director Todd Douglas Miller.... probably the best Apollo movie that will ever be released........

I'm currently building a model of the Saturn V and want to make it as close as I can to the one which launched Armstrong, Aldrin & Collins to the moon. This book was invaluable- though I've been interested in Apollo since the late 60s, there are many photographs that I hadn't seen before, including some very useful shots of the rocket being assembled and on the launch pad. Even if you don't need it as a reference, it's a great photographic record of the mission and the events leading up to and after the flight. Thoroughly worth the cost.

Excellent book about one of the greatest achievements in the history. Well documented with a lot of pictures and facts.

There are pictures in this book that I have never seen before and the information and details are brilliant

A fantastic collection of photographs. Many i had not seen before.An excellent pictorial record of Apollo 11.

This is a beautiful book with excellent printing quality. Most of the photos I have not seen elsewhere.The only negative thought is that I expected it to be a lot bigger than it is. Size is approx A4 (or US Letter size) whereas I was kind of hoping it would be a massive thick coffee-table size book. Page count is 264, I would have hoped for double that amount (such as the Apollo VII -XVII book). If I had paid the full launch price I would have been disappointed, but Amazon reduced it by half just prior to release. Nevertheless, there is a lot of good stuff and I don't hesitate to recommend it.

Well worth the money, unseen photos and well written, I thoroughly enjoyed this book

Excellent glad i bought it.

Este libro tiene es una belleza, por su tamaño, calidad del papel lustre, pero sobre todo por la impresionante colección de fotografías del Apollo 11. Fue una gran inversión.

Des photos peu courantes pour certaines, approche de la fusée Saturn V et de la mission Apollo 11. En anglais, livraison dans les temps.

Very good book! Gives a view of some of the moments You may not have seen before.If You’re a Apollo junkie like I am...there is even a few things that I have never seen! Great ResearchGood read!

Ótimo roteiro! É possível acompanhar toda a jornada da missão Apollo 11.Frustrado com a qualidade das fotos, com a qualidade da impressão dessas fotos e também com a qualidade do papel.

There's undoubtedly going to be plenty of coffee table style rehashes of the Apollo 11 mission published this year, most of them filled with well-known photographs and historical errors. Thankfully, and mercifully, this is not one of them. John Bisney and J.L. Pickering have culled nearly 500 images from their massive collection to present an extremely well rounded and intimate photograph study of the first manned moon landing.Those expecting a compilation of iconic images and Life Magazine-ready pictures of the astronauts and their families are going to be disappointed. All of the Hasselblad photos taken by the crew have been freely available for years, and only about 35 are included here. As hinted in the title, the real highlight of this book is the huge number of obscure and previously unpublished photographs. Along with official NASA imagery, many come from private collections, the Tiziou News Service, the Associated Press, and other media organizations. Every phase of the mission is depicted, from launch vehicle and spacecraft processing, through crew training and final preparations, launch, landing, quarantine, post-flight world tour, and many of the crew's reunions since.Although most books on Apollo focus either entirely on men or machines, "Picturing Apollo 11" does a fine job depicting both. Alongside photos of the S-IVB umbilical plate and the LM's environmental control unit, we get pictures of Neil and Buzz practicing their EVA procedures, Kurt Debus being interviewed by NBC, huge crowds watching the launch, and the signs of some of the space-themed hotels that popped up on the Cape in the 60s. There are even pictures of the astronauts signing their rental car agreements, Gregory Peck and his wife Veronique visiting the VAB, and the flag and commemorative plaque pre-flight. I've had a hard time writing this review because there's simply no way to describe the huge variety of images presented here without rambling on aimlessly.In fairness, I'd give this 4.5 stars if I could. On some pages, a number of the photographs are overlapped over the corner of others, which just looks rather sloppy. A slightly larger format would have helped. There are a couple of errors in the captions, including a photograph supposedly taken post-landing which has an awful lot of boot-prints in the lunar surface, and an image of the SM burning up described as the CM re-entering. These aren't major flaws, and they shouldn't deter anyone from buying this book. I'm usually too darn picky to give most space books five stars, but this one actually deserves it, and it makes a fine companion to the Todd Douglas Miller documentary "Apollo 11."