Since manufacturers starting making cars which are pretty much non user-serviceable, we imagine that Haynes, maker of car-repair manuals, has been struggling for trade. Make no mistake -- those books are fantastic if you have an older car. I used to own a Morris Minor and over the years I tore pretty much every part of it down and rebuilt it. Thanks to my Haynes manual, the car continued to run and I only had a very small box of leftover parts afterwards.
The lates Haynes offering might be about as useful as a manual for taking apart the Tesla's exhaust system*, but we love it nonetheless. It is a workshop manual for the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, along with the priapic Saturn V rocket that got it off the Earth.
The book deviates from the plain how-to-with-diagrams format and adds a history of the machines along with details of the space-suits and other critical systems. All this for just £18 ($28). The best part? I can cross my Dad off the Christmas present list already. My space-nerd brother, too.
Product page [Haynes]
*sarcasm alert
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