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If you're interested in the Apollo program, you'll find no better telling of it than A Man On The Moon by Andrew Chaikin. http://www.andrewchaikin.com/books/a-

• pjmorris 9y ago
  'A Man on the Moon' is a terrific book focused on the astronauts. Consider also reading 'Apollo: Race to the Moon', Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox for more of the engineering perspective. They cover everything from building the F-1 engines used in the Saturn V first stage, to the lunar module, to the vehicles used to transport the assembled rockets to the launch pad, to the organization of mission control and the project overall. My favorite book on the Apollo program.
• sizzzzlerz 9y ago
  This is one of the few DVD sets I've ever bought. The episode documenting the fire and its aftermath is in my top 3 episodes (Spider and Apollo 11 being the others). The hearing at the end where Frank Borman offers a look at the three dead astronauts and then tells Mondale and the other panel members to stop the witch hunt and let us go to the moon is perhaps the most satisfying scene in the entire episode. Great show and great series.
• matthewmcg 9y ago
  Second this recommendation for the book and miniseries. Jeff Kluger and Jim Lovell's Lost Moon (retitled Apollo 13 after the movie based on it) and Kluger's Apollo 8 are also good reads. For podcast listeners, these episodes of the Omega Tau podcast cover the Apollo hardware at a very high level of detail: http://omegataupodcast.net/239-the-saturn-v-launch-vehicle/ http://omegataupodcast.net/239-the-saturn-v-launch-vehicle/ http://omegataupodcast.net/83-how-apollo-flew-to-the-moon/ http://omegataupodcast.net/83-how-apollo-flew-to-the-moon/ http://omegataupodcast.net/97-how-apollo-explored-the-moon/ http://omegataupodcast.net/97-how-apollo-explored-the-moon/ http://omegataupodcast.net/167-the-apollo-guidance-computer/ http://omegataupodcast.net/167-the-apollo-guidance-computer/ http://omegataupodcast.net/218-a-life-in-apollo/ http://omegataupodcast.net/218-a-life-in-apollo/