Sounds like a fascinating book, would you recommend it?
Yes, enquiring minds want to know...
Good technical history of the Saturn rocket program. The book covers the development of the stages and engines, challenges faced during fabrication of the huge stages, the extensive use of computers for checkout, and management and logistics challenges. As a pseudo-engineer, I appreciated the challenges the Saturn team faced, particularly warping due to welds and the use of Tiger Teams.
Bilstein has created a tome worthy of every space enthusiast's reference shelf. Note that I say "reference." This is not a casual read, it's a dense, complete telling of the development of the Saturn V rocket form beginning to it's premature demise. Not for the timid, but if you are interested in the subject, you won't find a better telling of the complete story.
So for the engineers out there, recommended.
