Moonshot: The Inside Story of Mankind's Greatest Adventure (45 page)

34
Ibid.

35
Ibid.

36
Ibid.

Chapter 5: Nowhere to Hide

1
David Harland,
The First Men on the Moon
.

2
Ibid.

3
For descriptions of Mission Control, see Gene Kranz,
Failure Is Not an Option
(Berkley, 2000); and interview with Gene Kranz in Glen Swanson (ed.),
Before This Decade Is Out
.

4
Chris Kraft,
Flight, My Life in Mission Control
(Plume, 2002).

5
Kranz, op. cit.

6
Kraft, op. cit.

7
Kranz, op. cit.

8
Buzz Aldrin and Wayne Warga,
Return to Earth
.

9
Ibid.

10
Dr James Hansen,
First Man
.

11
Ibid.; and Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, with Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin,
First on the Moon
.

12
Hansen, op, cit.; and Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

13
Hansen, op. cit.

14
Ibid.

15
Ibid.

16
Ibid.; and Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

17
Hansen, op. cit.

18
Ibid.

19
http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/saturn_apollo/first_saturn_rocket.html

20
For North American and Grumman contracts, see
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4205/ch2-5.html#source29
and
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4205/ch4-5.html

21
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/735/1

22
Interview with Robert Gilruth in Glen Swanson (ed.), op. cit.

23
Stan Redding and Walter Mansell,
Houston Chronicle
, 22 November 1963:
http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/jfk/houston/stories/dinner.html

24
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9057747/Outer-Space-Treaty#145193.hook

25
Hansen, op. cit.

26
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/670127.asp

27
David Shayler,
Disasters and Accidents in Manned Spaceflight
; and Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton,
Moonshot
(Turner, 1994).

28
Shayler, op. cit.; and Shepard and Slayton, op. cit.

29
Hansen, op. cit.

30
Shayler, op. cit.; and Shepard and Slayton, op. cit.

31
Hansen, op. cit.

32
Ibid.

33
Ibid.

Chapter 6: Grounded in Safety

1
Gene Kranz
, Failure Is Not an Option
.

2
Michael Collins,
Carrying the Fire
.

3
Deke Slayton,
Deke!
; and Collins, op. cit.

4
Slayton, op. cit.

5
Dr James Hansen,
First Man
.

6
Kranz, op. cit.

7
Slayton, op. cit.

8
Collins, op. cit.

9
Hansen, op. cit.

10
Ibid.; and Andrew Chaikin,
A Man on the Moon
(Penguin,1994).

11
Chaikin, op. cit.

12
Hansen, op. cit.

13
Kranz, op. cit.

14
Hansen, op. cit.

15
Buzz Aldrin and Wayne Warga,
Return to Earth
; and Slayton, op. cit.

16
Kranz, op. cit.

17
Chris Kraft,
Flight
.

18
Collins, op. cit.

19
Kraft, op. cit.

20
Collins, op. cit.

21
Ibid.

22
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.; also see Hansen, op. cit.

23
Hansen, op. cit.

24
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, with Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin,
First on the Moon
.

25
NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.1201-fm.html
; and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

26
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.; and Collins, op. cit.

27
http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/attm/a11.jo.fc.1.html

28
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

29
Collins, op. cit.

30
Ibid.

31
Ibid.

Chapter 7: Risks and Risky Remedies

1
Deke Slayton,
Deke!
.

2
David Shayler,
Disasters and Accidents in Manned Spaceflight
.

3
Slayton, op. cit.

4
Ibid.

5
Dr James Hansen,
First Man
.

6
Michael Collins,
Carrying the Fire
.

7
Ibid.

8
Ibid.

9
Frank Borman, roll 386, 06:30:10.

10
Collins, op. cit.

11
Ibid.

12
Ibid.

13
Frank Borman, roll 386, 06:30:10.

14
Susan Borman, roll 388, 08:02:47:21.

15
Collins, op. cit.

16
Bill Anders, roll 1376, 16:14:22:28.

17
Andrew Chaikin,
A Man on the Moon
.

18
Ibid.; and Bill Anders, roll 1376 16:39:02:27.

19
Hansen, op. cit.

20
Buzz Aldrin and Wayne Warga,
Return to Earth
; and Hansen, op. cit.

21
Hansen, op. cit.; and personal conversation between the author and Neil Armstrong, Barcelona, 12/4/08.

22
Hansen, op. cit.

23
Ibid.

24
Ibid.

25
Ibid.

26
Ibid.

27
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, with Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin,
First on the Moon
.

28
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

29
Slayton, op. cit.; and Hansen, op. cit.

30
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

31
Slayton, op. cit.

32
Ibid.

33
Chris Kraft,
Flight
.

34
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

35
Ibid.

36
Hansen, op. cit.

37
Collins, op. cit.

38
Ibid.

39
Hansen, op. cit.

40
Collins, op. cit.

41
Hansen, op. cit.

42
Ibid.

43
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

44
Buzz Aldrin interview, roll 382, 22:29:40:29.

45
Hansen, op. cit.

46
Slayton, op. cit.; Kraft, op. cit.; Hansen, op. cit.; and Andrew Smith,
Moondust

47
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

48
Kraft, op. cit.; and Hansen, op. cit.

49
Buzz Aldrin, roll 383, 23:01:05:14.

50
Buzz Aldrin, roll 382, 22:13:01:17.

51
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

52
Ibid.

53
Slayton, op. cit.

54
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

55
Ibid.

56
Hansen, op. cit.; and Collins, op. cit.

Chapter 8: A Tissue-paper Spacecraft

1
The space shuttle does not make a powered landing, but instead relies on its aircraft-style design to glide through the lower parts of the atmosphere.

2
Dr James Hansen,
First Man
.

3
Ibid.

4
For references to the unidentified object, see Hansen, op. cit.; and Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

5
Buzz Aldrin and Wayne Warga,
Return to Earth
.

6
Deke Slayton,
Deke!
.

7
Chris Kraft,
Flight
.

8
Ibid.

9
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 1
.