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Apollo Program

Beattie, Donald A. Taking Science to the Moon: Lunar Experiments and the Apollo Program. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. An inside look at the behind-the-scenes controversies within NASA's entrenched engineering culture.

Chaikin, Andrew. A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts. Viking, 1994,1998. Insider's account of the men who traveled to the moon.

Fraser, Mary Ann. One Giant Leap. Holt, 1993, 1999. Illustrated story of the Apollo 11 moon mission. For younger readers.

Kranz, Gene. Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond. Simon & Schuster, 2000. An autobiographical account of the Apollo program from one of NASA's leading flight directors.

Lambright, W. Henry. Powering Apollo: James E. Webb of NASA. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Biography of the man who headed NASA during the Apollo program.

Lovell, Jim, and Jeffrey Kluger. Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13. Houghton Mifflin, 1994. This account of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission was later made into a popular movie.

Zimmerman, Robert. Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8: The First Manned Flight to Another World. Four Walls Eight Windows, 1998. The historic flight of Apollo 8, including accounts from the astronauts and their families.

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