Moonshot: The Inside Story of Mankind's Greatest Adventure (48 page)

5
Michael Collins,
Carrying the Fire
.

6
Report by John Sarkissian, Parkes Observatory, October 2000, available at
http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/

7
David Harland,
The First Men on the Moon
.

8
Report by John Sarkissian, Parkes Observatory, October 2000, available at
http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/

9
NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html

10
For further details of the EVA, including verbatim accounts from Armstrong and Aldrin, see Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
; and NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html

11
Buzz Aldrin and Wayne Warga,
Return to Earth
.

12
Andrew Chaikin,
A Man on the Moon
; and NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html

13
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

14
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, with Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin,
First on the Moon
.

15
Ibid.

16
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

17
Ibid.

18
Apollo 11 Preliminary Science Report, via NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html

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

20
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

21
NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html

22
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

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

24
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.; and Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

25
Harland, op. cit.; and Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

26
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

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

28
Ibid.

29
NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html

30
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

31
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

32
Apollo 11 Preliminary Science Report, via NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html
; and Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

33
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

34
Ibid.

35
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

36
Apollo 11 Preliminary Science Report, via NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html

37
Gene Cernan, roll 322, 00:32:09:02.

38
Harland, op. cit.; and Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

39
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

40
Buzz Aldrin and Malcolm McConnell,
Men from Earth
(Bantam, 1989), as quoted by NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html

41
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

42
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

43
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

Chapter 15: Mission Accomplished

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

2
Michael Collins,
Carrying the Fire
.

3
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, with Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin,
First on the Moon
.

4
Collins, op. cit.

5
Ibid.

6
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

7
Collins, op. cit.; and David Harland,
The First Men on the Moon
.

8
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

9
For the LM's launch from the Moon, see NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html
; Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
; Buzz Aldrin and Wayne Warga,
Return to Earth
; and Harland, op. cit.

10
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

11
Ibid.

12
For further information on rendezvous, see NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html
; Harland, op. cit.; Collins, op. cit.; Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume
2; and Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

13
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

14
Harland, op. cit.

15
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

16
For further information on the docking procedure, see Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.; Harland, op. cit.; and Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

17
Harland, op. cit.

18
Collins, op. cit.

19
Mission transcript at 131:07:07.

20
Mission transcript at 130:11:05.

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

22
Ibid.

23
Collins, op. cit.

24
Interview with Max Faget in Glen Swanson (ed.),
Before This Decade Is Out
.

25
For further details on re-entry, see Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

26
Collins, op. cit.

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

28
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

29
Collins, op. cit.; and Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

30
Collins, op. cit.

31
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.; and David West Reynolds,
Apollo, The Epic Journey to the Moon
.

32
NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/tnD7141ApPyrotchnc.pdf

33
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

34
For further details on the recovery, see Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.; Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 1
; Harland, op. cit.; and
http://www.uss-hornet.org/history/apollo/

35
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

36
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

37
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.

38
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

39
Ibid.

40
Collins, op. cit.

41
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

42
For further information on the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, see Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 1
; Collins, op. cit.; Harland, op. cit.; and
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4205/ch8-5.html

43
Godwin (ed.),
Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
.

44
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

45
Collins, op. cit.

46
Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.

47
Ibid.

48
Collins, op. cit.

Epilogue

1
Once on the surface Conrad discovered that pictures of semi-naked girls had been squeezed into the pages of his checklist by the backup crew. See NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/a12_lmpcuff.pdf

2
Michael Collins,
Carrying the Fire
.

3
David Harland,
The First Men on the Moon
; and
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_11/samples/

4
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_11/samples/

5
David West Reynolds,
Apollo, The Epic Journey to the Moon
; and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon

6
Harland, op. cit.

7
Collins, op. cit.

8
Ibid.

9
Buzz Aldrin and Wayne Warga,
Return to Earth
.

10
Ibid.

11
Ibid.

12
Ibid.;
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/specials/space/article2582966.ece
; and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Aldrin

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