Moonshot: The Inside Story of Mankind's Greatest Adventure (47 page)

12
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7085003.stm

13
Hansen, op. cit.

14
Buzz Aldrin and Wayne Warga,
Return to Earth
.

15
Hansen, op. cit.

16
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

17
Ibid.

18
Ibid.

19
Collins, op. cit.

20
Hansen, op. cit.

21
Ibid.

22
Ibid.

23
Ibid.

24
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/SP-4204/ch20-4.html

25
Collins, op. cit.

26
Hansen, op. cit.

27
Harland, op. cit.

28
Hansen, op. cit.

29
For details of EVA training, see Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 1
.

30
Hansen, op. cit.

31
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.; and Hansen, op. cit.

32
Hansen, op. cit.

33
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

34
Hansen, op. cit.

35
Collins, op. cit.

36
Ibid.; and Hansen, op. cit.

37
PPK details from Hansen, op. cit.

38
Collins, op. cit.; and Hansen, op. cit.

39
Hansen, op. cit.; Collins, op. cit.; and Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

40
Hansen, op. cit.

41
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

42
Collins, op. cit.

43
Hansen, op. cit.

44
Collins, op. cit.

45
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.; and Hansen, op. cit.

46
Hansen, op. cit.; and Gene Kranz,
Failure Is Not an Option
.

47
Collins, op. cit.

48
NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.landing.html

49
Hansen, op. cit.

50
Collins, op. cit.; and Hansen, op. cit.

51
Harland, op. cit.

52
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

Chapter 12: The Eagle has Wings

1
Robert Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

2
Gene Kranz, roll 368, 08:18:22:13.

3
Buzz Aldrin and Wayne Warga,
Return to Earth
.

4
Michael Collins,
Carrying the Fire
.

5
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, with Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin,
First on the Moon
.

6
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

7
Collins, op. cit.

8
David Harland,
The First Men on the Moon
; David West Reynolds,
Apollo, The Epic Journey to the Moon
; and Gene Kranz,
Failure Is Not an Option
.

9
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/moon/peopleevents/p_wives.html

10
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

11
Ibid.

12
Ibid.

13
Ibid.

14
Ibid.

15
Ibid.

16
Ibid.

17
Ibid.

18
Ibid.

19
Ibid.

20
Kranz, op. cit.

21
Descriptions of white team from: interview with Gene Kranz in Glen Swanson (ed.),
Before This Decade Is Out
; and Kranz, op. cit.

22
Gene Kranz, roll 368-01, 08:18:22:13.

23
Kranz, op. cit.; interview with Gene Kranz in Swanson (ed.), op. cit.; and Gene Kranz, roll 368, 08:18:22:13.

24
Harland, op. cit.

25
Collins, op. cit.

26
Gene Kranz, roll 368, 08:18:22:13; and interview with Gene Kranz in Swanson (ed.), op. cit.

27
Dr James Hansen,
First Man
.

28
Ibid.; and Harland, op. cit.

29
For Armstrong's and Aldrin's accounts of the descent, see Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

30
Interview with Gene Kranz in Swanson (ed.), op. cit.; and Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

31
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

32
Ibid.

33
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

34
Ibid.

35
Ibid.

36
Ibid.

37
Deke Slayton,
Deke!
.

38
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

39
Interview with Gene Kranz in Swanson (ed.), op. cit.

40
NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html

41
Ibid.

42
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

43
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

44
Ibid.

45
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

46
Interview with Gene Kranz in Swanson (ed.), op. cit.

47
Harland, op. cit.

Chapter 13: Sneaking Up on the Past

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

2
Ibid.

3
Dr James Hansen,
First Man
; and David Harland,
The First Men on the Moon
.

4
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, with Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin,
First on the Moon
; and Harland, op. cit.

5
Hansen, op. cit.

6
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

7
Buzz Aldrin and Wayne Warga,
Return to Earth
.

8
Apollo 11 Preliminary Science Report, at NASA's Lunar Surface Journal
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html

9
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

10
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

11
NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html

12
Michael Collins,
Carrying the Fire
.

13
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
; Collins, op. cit.; and NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html

14
Collins, op. cit.

15
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
; and Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

16
Buzz Aldrin, roll 383, 23:04:43:07.

17
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.; and Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 1
.

18
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

19
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

20
NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html
; and see also
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/omega.html

21
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

22
NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html

23
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

24
For further details on the pressure-suit, see Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 1
.

25
NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html

26
Ibid.

27
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

28
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

29
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

30
NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html

31
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

Chapter 14: A Walk on the Moon

1
NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11tether.html

2
Chris Kraft,
Flight
.

3
Ibid.

4
Ibid.; and Report by John Sarkissian, Parkes Observatory, October 2000, available at
http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/