Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE DOVER EDITION FOREWORD PREFACE CONCEPT TO CHALLENGE PROJECT PLANNING AND CONTRACTING CONTENDING MODES MATCHING MODULES AND MISSIONS COMMAND MODULE AND PROGRAM CHANGES LUNAR MODULE SEARCHING FOR ORDER MOVING TOWARD OPERATIONS TRAGEDY AND RECOVERY RACE WITH THE DECADE TASTES OF TRIUMPH THE TRAILBLAZERS TO LAND ON THE MOON TRIP TO TRANQUILITY EPILOGUE APPENDIX A. MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER SITE SELECTION PROCEDURE APPENDIX B. ASTRONAUT ASSIGNMENTS APPENDIX C. APOLLO FLIGHT PROGRAM APPENDIX D. Apollo 11 EXPERIMENTS APPENDIX E. Apollo 11 LUNAR SAMPLES APPENDIX F. MAJOR SPACECRAFT COMPONENT MANUFACTURERS APPENDIX G. APOLLO PROGRAM RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE MANNED SPACE CENTERS APPENDIX H. FUNDING-AS OF 30 JUNE 1969 SOURCE NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE INDEX LIST OF NASA PHOTOGRAPH NUMBERS

About the Author

Courtney Brooks is affiliated with International Business Machines and a research associate in the History Department of the University of Houston. James Grimwood has been NASA Johnson Space Center Historian since 1962. Loyd S. Swenson, Jr., is Professor of History at the University of Houston.