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I have the first edition of book 1 (revised first edition released just after I bought the original first edition). Lots of detailed information but in some chapters not particularly well arranged and some scattered in different chapters. You might think, well, I can look up what I am interested in using the Index. Sorry, no Index of subjects in the back. That said I find the information well worth it and would recommend the books. But often finding something specific can be a bit of a search without any Index. There are quite a number of references in the back of the book to reports, documents and books. However, there is no attempt (at least in the original edition version I have) of linking the text in the chapters to any of the reference materials. The reference sections are grouped by topics and not by chapter order. A few minor errors, such as listing the diameter of the Hubble Telescope mirror as 72 inches, whereas it is 2.4 meters (94.5 inches) , when comparing it to the KH-9 optical assembly. But overall, very comprehensive and well researched.I think it really could have used an editor to arrange some items in better order, and to generate an Index. If it was an electronic manuscript (as 99.9% are nowadays), an Index is much easier to assemble with word subject searches. And yes, the photos are all B&W. Some of those have a limited gray range and are somewhat washed out; those could have used some Photoshop dynamic range tweaking.
I have the first edition of book 1 (revised first edition released just after I bought the original first edition). Lots of detailed information but in some chapters not particularly well arranged and some scattered in different chapters. You might think, well, I can look up what I am interested in using the Index. Sorry, no Index of subjects in the back. That said I find the information well worth it and would recommend the books. But often finding something specific can be a bit of a search without any Index. There are quite a number of references in the back of the book to reports, documents and books. However, there is no attempt (at least in the original edition version I have) of linking the text in the chapters to any of the reference materials. The reference sections are grouped by topics and not by chapter order.
A few minor errors, such as listing the diameter of the Hubble Telescope mirror as 72 inches, whereas it is 2.4 meters (94.5 inches) , when comparing it to the KH-9 optical assembly. But overall, very comprehensive and well researched.
I think it really could have used an editor to arrange some items in better order, and to generate an Index. If it was an electronic manuscript (as 99.9% are nowadays), an Index is much easier to assemble with word subject searches. And yes, the photos are all B&W. Some of those have a limited gray range and are somewhat washed out; those could have used some Photoshop dynamic range tweaking.
