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Hack the Moon Bibliography STORY TITLE SOURCES General Sources for Many Topics and Stories - the following books served Digital Apollo by David A. Mindell as sources of both specific and general information on the Apollo Project and were utilized in many places across the website. Journey to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance Computer by Eldon C. Hall Apollo 13 by James Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memoir by Don Eyles Apollo 8 by Jeffrey Kluger Left Brains for the Right Stuff by Hugh Blair-Smith Apollo by Zack Scott Ramon Alonso's Moon Mission Grammar Ramon Alonso Interview MIT Science Reporter:The Apollo Guidance Computer -- https://infinitehistory.mit.edu/video/mit-science-reporter%E2% 80%94computer-apollo-1965 Apollo's Iron Man: Doc Draper https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/27/obituaries/charles-s-draper-engineer-guided-astronauts-to-moon.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1987/07/28/charles-draper-dies-at-age-85/4bdedf80-c033-4563-a129- eb425d37180a/?utm_term=.ab5f7aaa7b19 http://www.nmspacemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.php?id=6 http://news.mit.edu/2015/michael-collins-speaks-about-first-moon-landing-0402 https://www.nap.edu/read/4548/chapter/7#126 Digital Fly-By-Wire Left Brains For The Right Stuff by Hugh Blair-Smith www.nasa.gov https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2017/july/flight-training-magazine/fly-by-wire www.aircraft.airbus.com aviationweek.com/blog/1987 http://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2011/t_5.html The Amazing DSKY: A Leapfrog in Computer Science E-2567 -- Operations & Functions of the MINKEY rendezvous computer program in the Apollo Command Module Computer www.ibiblio.org/apollo https://historical.ha.com/itm/explorers/space-exploration/apollo-guidance-computer-original-display-and-keyboard-dsky- unit/a/6033-41178.s https://infinitehistory.mit.edu/video/mit-science-reporter%E2%80%94computer-apollo-1965 http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/ https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/yaDSKY.html Don Eyles Interview Ramon Alonso Interview Frank Borman Interview Space Exploration: Lunar Orbit Rendezvous https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/factsheets/Rendezvous.htmlhttps://www.nasa.gov/langley/hall-of-honor/john- c-houbolt https://www.nasa.gov/langley/hall-of-honor/john-c-houbolt https://www.space.com/25570-nasa-moon-pioneer-john-houbolt-obituary.html Martian Probe: The First Step Towards a Moon Landing Draper at 25: Innovation for the 21st Century by Christopher Morgan, p.18 Draper Reports: M-1097 – Concise Comparison of the photographic and communications Methods for Mars Reconnaissance M-1094 -- Propulsion System for a Mars Reconnaissance Probe - Interim Report of Study M-1096 – reentry problems Associated with a Mars Reconnaissance Vehicle M-1106 – Communications problems with a Mars Photo-Reconnaissance Vehicle M-1123 – Study report to Participants in Mars Reconnaissance Program R-0235 Recoverable Interplanetary Space Probe 1980 Draper Annual Report, p.18 982 Draper Annual Report, p.30 Neil Armstrong's Lasting Legacy https://vimeo.com/213832059/d6cdb64765 https://vimeo.com/213788803/3d0e764941 Seamus Tuohy Interview Don Fraser Interview https://www.wired.com/2012/08/neil-armstrong-test-pliot/ John C. Houbolt Helped Win the Space Race https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/us/john-c-houbolt-lunar-pioneer-dies-at-95.html https://www.space.com/25570-nasa-moon-pioneer-john-houbolt-obituary.html https://www.nasa.gov/langley/hall-of-honor/john-c-houbolt https://www.nasa.gov/about/org_index.html Draper Rooftop Navigator Sunburst and Luminary by Don Eyles, p. 55 Left Brains for the Right Stuff by Hugh Blair-Smith, p.165-167 Journey To the Moon by Eldon Hall, p.103 David Mindell Interview Draper's Skymark System Draper Laboratory Apollo 1 https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/orbital-missions/apollo1.cfm https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo1info.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo1.html https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_01a_Summary.htm Apollo 4 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/apollo-4-was-first-ever-launch-from-nasas-kennedy-space-center https://jalopnik.com/this-insane-rocket-is-why-the-soviet-union-never-made-i-1448356326 Apollo 5 http://planetfacts.org/apollo-5-fire-in-the-hole/ https://history.nasa.gov/SP-350/ch-4-6.html Left Brains for the Right Stuff by Hugh Blair-Smith Sunburst and Luminary by Don Eyles Digital Apollo by David Mindell Apollo 6 https://www.popsci.com/how-little-vibrations-break-big-rockets https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1968-025A Apollo 7 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo7.html https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/orbital-missions/apollo7.cfm http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/10/apollo-7-nasas-first-mini-mutiny-in-space https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_7/ Apollo 8 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo8.html https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/orbital-missions/apollo8.cfm https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_8/overview/ Apollo 8 by Jeffrey Kluger Apollo 9 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo9.html https://www.space.com/28777-apollo-9-astronaut-lifechanging-spacewalk-video.html https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/orbital-missions/apollo9.cfm https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_9/overview/ Apollo 10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsObsxU08ys https://www.space.com/17590-apollo-10.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo10.html https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Luminary.html https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/orbital-missions/apollo10.cfm Apollo 11 Moon Landing https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo11.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/07/12/the_brilliant_funny_computer_code_behind_the_apollo_11_mission. html https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_11/overview/ Apollo 12 Struck by Lightening https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xyw4kz/john-aaron-apollo-12-curiosity-luck-and-sce-to-aux https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a20950226/alan-bean-apollo-12-launch/ https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo12.html https://science.howstuffworks.com/apollo-spacecraft7.htm Apollo 13 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo13.html Apollo 13 by James Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, Original interviews Apollo 14 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo14.html https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_14/overview/ Apollo 15 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo15.html https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_15/ https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/landing-missions/apollo15.cfm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xTGzesCsjs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrbS0B3l56A https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo_lrv.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/02/12/elon-musks-tesla-roadster-isnt-the-first-electric-car-in- space/#9740d4c4d576 Apollo 16 https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_16/overview/ https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_16/experiments/ https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/landing-missions/apollo16.cfm https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/landing-missions/apollo16-objectives.cfm https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo16.html https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_16/samples/ Apollo 17 https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/landing-missions/apollo17.cfm https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo17.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo17.html https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/leaving-moon-watching-home https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_17/samples/ Space Sextant Navigates Moon Missions http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/06/the-story-of-the-apollo-sextant "Apollo Guidance, Navigation, and Control: MIT's Role in Project Apollo" final report, sections 3.5 and 5.2 "Man-Machine Design for the Apollo Navigation, Guidance, and Control System" by J. L. Nevins http://klabs.org/history/history_docs/mit_docs/1697.pdf https://www.ion.org/museum/item_view.cfm?cid=6&scid=5&iid=293 The First Apollo Missions Contract Goes To.... Peter Kachmar Interview Harrison Scmitt Interview William Robertson Interview Don Fraser Interview John Miller Interview https://vimeo.com/213789660/66d06df13f -- No 2 - GNC What Moon Missions Rocks Revealed https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/HamishALSEP.html?linkId=45898906 https://www.nasa.gov/50th/50th_magazine/lunarExploration.html https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm How NASA Picked the Moon Landing Sites https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/El-BazF/El-BazF_11-2-09.htm https://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/SP-4214/ch6-2.html https://www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-ago-lunar-landing-sites-selected https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/site_studies/ The Fiery Return of the Apollo Missions https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/apollo-to-the-moon/online/apollo-11/journey-home.cfm https://science.howstuffworks.com/apollo-spacecraft7.htm NASA Facts: An Educational Publication of the National Aeronuatics and Space Administration, "Manned Space Flight: Apollo", Volume 4, Issue 7 The Spider and the Moon Missions https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/alsj-LMdocs.html
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