HONR 269I
To the Moon and Back: The Apollo Program
Spring 2019 Other Sources

• Dave Akin, University of Maryland Space Systems Laboratory. This Web site includes course Web pages for ENAE 483 (Principles of Space Systems Design), ENAE 697 (Space Human Factors and Life Support) and ENAE 791 (Launch and Entry Vehicle Design).
• Jim Hillhouse (editor), America Space. This Web site publishes detailed articles, some of which are historical retrospectives on activities in the American and Soviet space programs.
• Johnson Space Center, Oral History Program. This site contains PDF transcripts of more than 1,000 oral history interviews focused on human space flight, many of which are were conducted with Apollo-era participants. A few of these are also available on video through C-SPAN.
• John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, The Bay of Pigs. This Web site introduces the background of the unsuccessful invasion of Cuba that President Kennedy authorized, and it includes an extensive collection of declassified memoranda that document that decision. The failed invasion, a significant setback in the third month of the Kennedy administration, occurred five weeks before the decision to go to the Moon.
• Roger D. Lanius, Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis, NASA Monographs in Aerospace History, 1994. This book contains an extensive political history of the decision to go to the moon.
• David Mindell, Engineering Apollo: The Moon Project as a Complex System, MIT course STS 471J, 2007. These course materials from a MIT graduate course are the closest existing analogue to what we will cover in this course.
• Moon Base Clavius. A Web site with extensive analysis of Apollo Program materials, particularly from the perspective of conspiracy theories.
• NASA, NASA Technical Reports Server. This system contains many hundreds of scanned technical documents from the Apollo era that are available for free, and descriptions of thousands more that can be scanned on request (for a fee).
• NASA Engineering and Safety Center, NESC Academy. This collection of videos includes detailed engineering discussions of a number of aspects of the Apollo Program (search on Apollo).
• Kevin Serling (Producer), Moon Beat, DVD, 2009. This movie includes interviews with several reporters who covered the moon landings.
• Bill Tindall, Tindallgrams. This is a set of memoranda written by addressing Apollo mission procedures. These are remarkably readable and engaging for their genre.
• W. David Woods, How Apollo Flew to the Moon (Second Edition), Springer-Praxis, 2011, available through the University Libraries. This book provides a detailed walkthrough of the mechanics of an Apollo mission.