APOLLO Photo Galleries and Image Files - Set One: Apollo 1 through Apollo 12 (Two CD-ROM Set) [CD-ROM]

World Spaceflight News (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 7, 2001

World Spaceflight News is proud to present the most complete collection of Apollo photographs ever gathered in one place. It's so huge, this set - with still images from Apollo 1 through Apollo 12, including the first landing on Apollo 11 - takes up over 1.2 gigabytes (GB) of storage on two CD-ROMs! (Set Two contains the images from Apollo 13 through Apollo 17 and is available here at Amazon.com; ISBN 1893472663. The two sets combined have 11,000 gallery pages and 12,000 image files.) This set contains over 4300 NASA image files. In addition to superb crew, vehicle, and launch photos, images from the landing missions make you feel like you're on the Moon, with majestic surface and EVA views - including sequential Hasselblad frames! We've also included 185 video and movie clips from Apollo 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, and 17 (.mpg and .mov files) that can be played on your computer.

Our unique "IMAGE GALLERY" in Adobe Acrobat format reproduces the photos in a computerized "photo album" suitable for quick full-screen browsing! In the Image Gallery, many of the photos are accompanied by the official NASA caption. This format was designed to mimic the look and "feel" of a real book; there is no need to laboriously import specific images into a slow-loading program for viewing and printing. As you flip through the images in the Gallery, you can magnify photographs for better viewing. For completeness, we've also included each of the original image files (in .gif and .jpg formats) which can be copied onto your computer and used as you would any graphics file. This CD-ROM is perfect for anyone interested in the spectacular history of American manned spaceflight!

The Image Galleries are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows 95/98, Windows 3.1, NT, and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

World Spaceflight News has covered spaceflight and the Space Shuttle program since 1983. In addition to our flagship publication, we produce printed and electronic Special Reports and NASA videos, and the American Space Encyclopedia series of CD-ROMs. At WSN, our mission is simple: provide space enthusiasts and professionals around the globe with unique technical information and historical material about spaceflight. We hope that a better appreciation of the complexities and challenges posed by space exploration will foster increased support for man's continued voyage into space. Our love of spaceflight drives our publishing efforts, and we've been gratified over the years that readers from Austria to Australia have found great value in our work. We try to satisfy a wide range of interests by producing a broad selection of high-quality products with exclusive material not found elsewhere.

From the Author

World Spaceflight News: Space enthusiasts with a mission!

We wanted to take this opportunity to provide some background about World Spaceflight News (WSN) and the American Space Encyclopedia series of CD-ROM electronic books available here at Amazon.com. In addition to our flagship publication, our coverage of spaceflight and the Space Shuttle includes printed and electronic Special Reports and NASA videos, and the American Space Encyclopedia series of CD-ROMs. We've been space fans since the dawn of the Space Age, providing news coverage - accredited by NASA - since 1983. At WSN, our mission is simple: provide space enthusiasts and professionals around the globe with unique technical information and historical material about spaceflight. We hope that a better appreciation of the complexities and challenges posed by space exploration will foster increased support for man's continued voyage into space. Our love of spaceflight drives our publishing efforts, and we've been gratified over the years that readers from Austria to Australia have found great value in our work. We try to satisfy a wide range of interests by producing a broad selection of high-quality products with exclusive material not found elsewhere. With the introduction of our ever-expanding line of CD-ROM books, we are at the cutting edge of another innovation on the digital frontier, the new world of electronic publishing. The American Space Encyclopedia series is an important original concept allowing the inexpensive distribution of thousands of pages of material that otherwise would remain locked away in dusty archives or hidden on the shelves of NASA engineers.

PUTTING CONTENT FIRST - These CDs are not flashy multimedia presentations from a Hollywood studio or video game producer. Rather, as the name "encyclopedia" implies, they are collections of documents and images in the popular and highly effective Adobe Acrobat PDF format. The discs contain accurate and faithful reproductions of real NASA documents; there is no interface on the planet that will make these authentic documents more interesting or their presentation more interactive! On some discs, we've supplemented the document collection with our ground-breaking "image gallery" concept. This exclusive feature gathers hundreds of NASA images into one PDF file, allowing the reader to flip through the pictures in the same way you would look through a photo album. The PDF image conversion process provides a user-friendly format that is far more convenient than a simple collection of image files.

COMMITMENT TO PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATION - Many hours of hard work go into every CD-ROM - from concept development, research, data gathering, and information requests, to scanning, importing, formatting, and file preparation. Our extensive knowledge and experience helps us identify the most interesting material for each subject.

USER-FRIENDLY INTERFACE PROVIDES DIRECT ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS - The "Table of Contents and File Navigator" correlates each title with the appropriate file name - there is no confusion associating files with document titles. (Short file names are used for compatibility with older operating systems.) Like a web page, simply clicking on the hyperlinked document name takes you directly to the cover page of the document. Extensive experience has demonstrated that this is the best interface for these PDF files.

HIGH-QUALITY CD DUPLICATION - We use an in-house special-purpose CD duplicator which utilizes blank CD-R discs. This system allows us to modify and update our titles on short notice. In the unlikely event that there is a problem with one of our discs, rest assured that we will promptly replace any defective CD. By the way, published reports indicate that CD-R discs have an estimated lifetime of 100 years, compared to the much shorter life of mass-produced factory-stamped CDs.

We thank you for this chance to explain why we are so proud of our work here at World Spaceflight News!

Product Details

• CD-ROM: 3213 pages
• Publisher: Progressive Management (June 7, 2001)
• ISBN-10: 1893472655
• ISBN-13: 978-1893472655
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,893,723 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Multitude of photographs, December 19, 2008

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This review is from: APOLLO Photo Galleries and Image Files - Set One: Apollo 1 through Apollo 12 (Two CD-ROM Set) (CD-ROM)

An excellent item with a vast array of excellent quality photographs. Highly recommended to any Apollo Program fan.