15.2 Technical reference sites

Apollo 11 Onboard Audio
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/apollo11_audio.html
Recordings and transcripts of the onboard conversations during the Apollo 11 flight.

Apollo Artifacts
www.apolloartifacts.com
Vast private collection of Apollo spaceflight-related items.

Apollo Bibliography
history.nasa.gov/alsj/apollo.biblio.html
Photographs, documents, software, models, reference books and sites.

Apollo Flight Journal
history.nasa.gov/afj/
Highly detailed and richly commented timeline of the Apollo flights, including transcripts of all the radio communications and onboard conversations.

Apollo Lunar Surface Journal
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj
A full timeline of the lunar excursions, with commented transcripts of every word, photograph and action of the moonwalkers.

Apollo Saturn Reference Page
www.apollosaturn.com
Technical documents related to the Saturn V booster.

Apollo Technical Data Library
www.cs.indiana.edu/sudoc/image_30000061709352/30000061709352/pdf/techdata.htm
Specific documents and manuals of the command module, of the lunar module and of the Saturn V launcher; preliminary and final reports and press kits for each mission.

Apollo TV
www.apollotv.net
Information on the television coverage of the Apollo missions.

Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4205/contents.html
A meticulously detailed history of the Apollo spacecraft.

Clementine Color Images of the Moon/Clementine Lunar Map
ser.sese.asu.edu/MOON/clem_color.html
www.nrl.navy.mil/clm
Collections of the images acquired by the United States’ Clementine lunar probe (1994).

Consolidated Lunar Atlas
www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/cla
Photographic atlas of the Moon.

Deepcold
www.deepcold.com
Military space projects of the United States and the Soviet Union.

Encyclopedia Astronautica
Astronautix.com
Vast collection of technical and historical information on Russian and American crewed spaceflights.

HORIZONS
ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi
A NASA site that allows to calculate the apparent size, phase and position of any celestial body of our solar system as seen from any other body on any date (e.g., the appearance of the Earth as seen from the Moon).

Kaguya/Selene
wms.selene.jaxa.jp
www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/selene/index_e.html
Technical data, photographs and videos from the Japanese Kaguya/Selene lunar probe (2007-2009).

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov
centauri.larc.nasa.gov/lro
Sites of the probe that obtained the first images of the Apollo spacecraft on the Moon in 2009.

Moonport
www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4204/cover.html
History of the lunar launch facilities of the United States.

NASA JSC Transcript Collection (Mercury to Apollo)
www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/mission_transcripts.htm
Collected transcripts of the radio communications of US crewed spaceflights.

NASA Office of Logic Design
klabs.org/history/history_docs/mit_docs/index.htm
Archive of documents related to the navigation and control computers of the Apollo spacecraft.

NASA Technical Reports Server
ntrs.nasa.gov
Huge collection of technical reports covering the entire US space program and the scientific knowledge gained from spaceflight.

PBS Race to the Moon
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/moon/index.html
Extensive site providing additional information in support of the PBS documentary Race to the Moon.

Radiation Effects and Analysis
radhome.gsfc.nasa.gov/top.htm
One of the main archives for documents regarding the effects of radiation in relation to spaceflight, managed by the Goddard Spaceflight Center.

Russian Space Web
www.russianspaceweb.com
News and history of the Russian space program.

The Apollo Program (1963-1972)
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo.html
Archive of the National Space Science Data Center, containing documents on all the Apollo missions, including the uncrewed test flights.

The Space Race
www.thespacerace.com
Site dedicated to the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo projects; not affiliated with NASA.

Unmanned Spaceflight
www.unmannedspaceflight.com
Site focusing on news regarding space missions by uncrewed vehicles.

We Choose the Moon
www.wechoosethemoon.org
Interactive site celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the first crewed Moon landing, with detailed animations, sounds and videos of all the key phases of the Apollo 11 mission.

Working on the Moon: Lessons from Apollo
workingonthemoon.com/index.html
Documents and experiences of the Apollo lunar excursions, reexamined for their usefulness for future crewed missions to the Moon.