Apollo, the race to the moon
by Charles A. Murray · first published 1989
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Describes how a group of men and women accomplished the feat of landing men on the moon and returning them to earth.
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And I'd recommend "Apollo - The Race To The Moon" by Murray & Cox. Unlike most books about the US space program, this deals with everything except the astronauts. I've read it so many times my copy is falling apart...
on “Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing” ↗> The best and most comprehensive historical account of the Apollo 8 lunar decision is contained in Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox’s 1989 book Apollo: the Race to the Moon. Murray and Cox devoted ten pages to the subject. They clearly stated that the decision to send Apollo 8 on a circumlunar mission was overwhelmingly determined by Apollo’s aggressive schedule and not…
on “Spooky Apollo: Apollo 8 and the CIA” ↗Apollo: The Race To The Moon Charles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox My favorite book of this type by far.
on “Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things” ↗…Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl - Concentration camp survival. 9. The Chariots of Apollo - NASA's space program. 10. Across the Airless Wilds by Earl Swift - Development of the moon buggy. 11. Apollo: The Race to the Moon by Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox - Apollo missions. 12. The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr - Food supply chains. 13. The Prize by Daniel Yergin - Oil industry evolution. 14. Shadow…
on “Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things” ↗(I misremembered it slightly, so sue me) From "Apollo The Race to the Moon" pg 102: The joke that made the rounds of NASA was that the Saturn V had a reliability rating of .9999. In the story, a group from headquarters goes down to Marshall and asks Wernher von Braun how reliable…
on “NASA Artemis II moon mission live launch broadcast” ↗