Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo: A Rare Photographic History Hardcover – September 15, 2015 by John Bisney and J. L. Pickering (University of New Mexico Press)

This book, along with it’s preceding companion volume - Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini: A Rare Photographic History - is fabulous!

The texts of each chapter are concise yet very comprehensive with the main focus being on the photographs as the title suggests. The photos are really excellent selections and help convey a great sense of the times and the enthusiasm, optimism, dedication and urgency behind the Golden Age of US manned space flight. The photographs - both candid and formal - provide a view into numerous facets and aspects of the Apollo Programs(launch & flight crews, astronauts & their family members, rockets, flight directors, various badges & other ephemera etc.)

This doesn’t mean that the text has been neglected. On the contrary, the authors have provided informative main texts for each of the chapters which are dedicated chronologically to each specific Apollo and subsequent Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz mission. Additionally, the captions for each of the photos are very thorough and informative as well.

Winner of the Bronze Medal for Science in the 2016 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards 

In this companion volume to John Bisney and J. L. Pickering’s extraordinary book of rare photographs from the Mercury and Gemini missions, the authors now present the rest of the Golden Age of US manned space flight with a photographic history of Project Apollo.

Beginning in 1967, Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo chronicles the program’s twelve missions and its two follow-ons, Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. The authors draw from rarely seen NASA, industry, and news media images, taking readers to the Moon, on months-long odysseys above Earth, and finally on the first international manned space flight in 1975.
The book pairs many previously unpublished images from Pickering’s unmatched collection of Cold War–era space photographs with extended captions—identifying many NASA, military, and contract workers and participants for the first time—to provide comprehensive background information about the exciting climax and conclusion of the Space Race.

This is a very nicely done job and clearly a labor of love from the authors and publisher. A book which I will return to many times.