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== Further reading == {{refbegin}} * {{cite book |url = http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/APSR-JSC-09423.pdf |title = Apollo Program Summary Report}} {{small|(46.3 MB)}} NASA Report JSC-09423, April 1975 * {{cite book |last=Collins |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Collins (astronaut) |others=Foreword by [[Charles Lindbergh]] |title=Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys |orig-year=Originally published 1974; New York: [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]] |date=2001 |publisher=Cooper Square Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8154-1028-7 |lccn=2001017080 |ref=Collins |url=https://archive.org/details/carryingfire00mich}} The autobiography of Michael Collins' experiences as an astronaut, including his flight aboard Apollo 11. * {{cite book |last=Cooper |first=Henry S.F. Jr. |author-link=Henry S. F. Cooper Jr. |title=Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed |orig-year=Originally published 1972; New York: Dial Press |date=1995 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore |isbn=0-8018-5097-5 |oclc=31375285 |lccn=94039726 |ref=Cooper |url=https://archive.org/details/thirteenapollofl00coop}} Although this book focuses on Apollo 13, it provides a wealth of background information on Apollo technology and procedures. * {{cite book |last1=French |first1=Francis |author-link1=Francis French (author) |last2=Burgess |first2=Colin |author-link2=Colin Burgess (author) |others=Foreword by [[Walter Cunningham]] |title=[[In the Shadow of the Moon (book)|In the Shadow of the Moon]]: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965β1969 |date=2007 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |location=Lincoln |isbn=978-0-8032-1128-5 |oclc=182559769 |lccn=2006103047 |ref=French & Burgess}} History of the Apollo program from Apollos 1β11, including many interviews with the Apollo astronauts. * [[James Gleick|Gleick, James]], "Moon Fever" [review of [[Oliver Morton]], ''The Moon: A History of the Future''; ''Apollo's Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography'', an exhibition at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City]], July 3 β September 22, 2019; [[Douglas Brinkley]], ''American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race''; [[Brandon R. Brown]], ''The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America's First Moon Missions''; [[Roger D. Launius]], ''Reaching for the Moon: A Short History of the Space Race''; ''Apollo 11'', a documentary film directed by [[Todd Douglas Miller]]; and [[Michael Collins (astronaut)|Michael Collins]], ''Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys (50th Anniversary Edition)''], ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', vol. LXVI, no. 13 (15 August 2019), pp. 54β58. * {{cite book |last=Kranz |first=Gene |author-link=Gene Kranz |title=Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond |date=2000 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |isbn=0-7432-0079-9 |oclc=43590801 |lccn=00027720 |ref=Kranz |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780743200790}} Factual, from the standpoint of a flight controller during the [[Project Mercury|Mercury]], [[Project Gemini|Gemini]], and Apollo space programs. * {{cite book |last1=Lovell |first1=Jim |author-link1=Jim Lovell |last2=Kluger |first2=Jeffrey |author-link2=Jeffrey Kluger |title=[[Lost Moon|Apollo 13]] |orig-year=Previously published 1994 as ''[[Lost Moon]]'' |date=2000 |publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|Houghton Mifflin Company]] |location=Boston |isbn=0-618-05665-3 |oclc=43118301 |lccn=99089647 |ref=Lovell & Kluger}} Details the flight of Apollo 13. * {{cite journal |last1=McMahon |first1=Adam |title=To the Moon and Back: Reexamining Presidential Decision-Making and the Apollo Program |journal=Space Policy |volume=62 |year=2022 |page=101516 |doi=10.1016/j.spacepol.2022.101516 |bibcode=2022SpPol..6201516M |ref=none|doi-access=free}} * {{cite journal |last1=Musgrave |first1=Paul |last2=Nexon |first2=Daniel |title=Defending Hierarchy from the Moon to the Indian Ocean: Symbolic Capital and Political Dominance in Early Modern China and the Cold War |journal=International Organization |volume=72 |issue=3 |year=2018 |pages=591β626 |doi=10.1017/S0020818318000139 |ref=none|doi-access=free}} * {{cite book |last1=Pellegrino |first1=Charles R. |author-link1=Charles R. Pellegrino |last2=Stoff |first2=Joshua |title=Chariots for Apollo: The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moon |date=1999 |publisher=Avon Books |location=New York |isbn=0-380-80261-9 |oclc=41579174 |ref=Pellegrino & Stoff}} Tells [[Grumman]]'s story of building the lunar modules. * {{Cite book |last1=Scott |first1=David |author-link1=David Scott |last2=Leonov |first2=Alexei |author-link2=Alexei Leonov |last3=Toomey |first3=Christine |others=Foreword by [[Neil Armstrong]]; introduction by [[Tom Hanks]] |title=Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race |edition=1st U.S. |date=2004 |publisher=[[Thomas Dunne Books]] |location=New York |isbn=0-312-30865-5 |oclc=56587777 |lccn=2004059381 |ref=Scott & Leonov |url=https://archive.org/details/twosidesofmoon00scot}} * {{cite book |last=Seamans |first=Robert C. Jr. |title=Project Apollo: The Tough Decisions |series=Monographs in Aerospace History|number=37 |date=2005 |publisher=NASA |location=Washington, D.C. |isbn=0-16-074954-9 |oclc=64271009 |lccn=2005003682 |id=NASA SP-4537 |ref=Seamans}} History of the crewed space program from 1{{nbsp}}September 1960, to 5{{nbsp}}January 1968. * {{cite book |last1=Slayton |first1=Donald K. |author1-link = Deke Slayton |last2=Cassutt |first2=Michael |author2-link = Michael Cassutt |title = Deke!: An Autobiography |date=1995 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York |isbn=0-312-85918-X |ref=Slayton & Cassutt }} Account of Deke Slayton's life as an astronaut and of his work as chief of the astronaut office, including selection of Apollo crews. * {{Cite book |url = https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19690022643_1969022643.pdf |title = The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology |volume=1}} {{small|(131.2 MB)}} From origin to November 7, 1962 * {{Cite book |url = https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19740004394_1974004394.pdf |title = The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology |volume=2}} {{small|(13.4 MB)}} November 8, 1962 β September 30, 1964 * {{Cite book |url = https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19760014180_1976014180.pdf |title = The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology |volume=3}} {{small|(57.7 MB)}} October 1, 1964 β January 20, 1966 * {{Cite book |url= https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19800011953_1980011953.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19800011953_1980011953.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title = The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology |volume=4}} {{small|(24.2 MB)}} January 21, 1966 β July 13, 1974 * {{Cite book |last=Wilhelms |first=Don E. |author-link=Donald Wilhelms |title = To a Rocky Moon: A Geologist's History of Lunar Exploration |url = https://archive.org/details/torockymoongeolo0000wilh |url-access=registration |date=1993 |publisher=University of Arizona Press |location=Tucson |isbn=0-8165-1065-2 |oclc=26720457 |lccn=92033228 |ref=Wilhelms}} The history of lunar exploration from a geologist's point of view. {{refend}}
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