I first wanted to focus on the pages that needed to be adapted rather than new pages. All these are the Figma draft version I created before moving to InDesign.
I started off with the cover, which just needed the title resized and positioned, along with some new illustrations below. I felt this kept the original feel well while being more appropriate for a book.
The take off page was trickier than I thought. I had initially though of using a landscape layout and pretty much reusing the layout, but realised the animations wouldn’t work so felt the portrait would be best. I felt using the rocket full width along the bottom worked well as it was the main topic of the content and was important to show fully. Rather than include the manoeuvre and orbit, I created a simple graphic to show the distance from the moon to earth. I was conscious I didn’t want to overcomplicate the pages as the static nature meant there had to be more focus on the content.
The Descent page is one I’m really happy with. I thought it was going to be really difficult to adapt due to how heavily it relied on a web format, but felt I managed to retain the feel well. The jumbled lettering was something I felt worked well to replace the animation, and that the motion lines helped to keep the idea of descent without actually having it move. The extra space the page format have allowed for a more diagrammatic view of the module and I could include a small table of data about the lander.
Similarly to descent, touchdown relied heavily on scrolling. The second page was fairly easy, using the same visuals from the prototype, but the first page was more of a challenge. To fill the space, I found one of the diagrams from the Apollo 11 flight plan which showed the landing motion and recreated it in my style. I felt the diagram looked really good in the space and fitted the more technical feel of these pages.
