Apollo 11 and Other Screw-Ups

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Eyles has written a book Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memoir, https://www.amazon.com/Sunburst-Luminary-Apollo-Don-Eyles/dp..., published earlier this year which recounts his role in designing and building much of the software in the Apollo guidance computer. It recounts much of this history and is a worthwhile read for space and Apollo junkies.

Discussion from a couple years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12040503

See also Mindell, David A. Digital Apollo. MIT Press 2011

I second your recommendation of Digital Apollo - an excellent book.

I also rate How Apollo Flew to the Moon by David Woods (Springer Praxis, 2011) very highly. The cover is kind of cheesy but its full of the kind of technical detail that is hard to find without reading through old NASA docs.

Related article about Don & Apollo 14: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/don-eyle...

The most curious screw ups to me are the badly photoshopped images to get rid of UFO activity. Just look at the testimony by former NASA workers who independently heard the full transcript regarding Apollo team's sightings of extra terrestrial vehicles monitoring them.

Do you have any links for that? I would love to learn more.

https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80171742

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