Just what do you think you're doing, Dave? [review of Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight (D.A. Mindell; 2008)]

This 456-page book details how Apollo's astronauts learned to work with - and around - their computers. The most compelling part of the book is its careful examination of the ways computers occasionally misbehaved and how the astronauts handled the crises. Thanks to the early work of the Apollo project managers, computer systems reliability was perhaps the biggest spin-off the space program ever had.