2Interview with Gerry Griffin, 2016; NASA Oral Histories interviews with Gerry Griffin; understandably, different retellings, even from one person, have the labels varying. (In some cases, Armstrong wrote “peace” and not “talent” on one of the curves, etc.) Armstrong himself, according to Griffin, later told Griffin that he didn’t recall the graphic display.
3Ward, Dr. Space, p. 128.
4NASA Oral Histories interview with Joseph “Guy” Thibodaux.
5Interview with Gerry Griffin, 2016.
6NASA Oral Histories interview with Peter Armitage.
7NASA Oral Histories interview with Elmer Barton.
8NASA Oral Histories interview with Peter Armitage.
9Bilstein, Stages to Saturn, Chapter 9; Dunar and Waring, Power to Explore, p. 48; NASA Oral Histories interview with Aleck Bond.
10NASA Oral Histories interview with Henry Pohl.
11Interview with Marlowe Cassetti, 2017.
12Interview with Aldo Bordano, 2016.
13NASA Oral Histories interviews with Marlowe Cassetti and Henry Pohl; interview with Aldo Bordano, 2016; NASA Oral Histories interview with Caldwell Johnson.
14NASA Oral Histories interviews with John Mayer and Peter Armitage.
15Murray and Cox, Apollo, pp. 264–265.
16NASA Oral Histories interview with Hal Beck.
17Interviews with Henry Pohl, 2017 and 2016.
18NASA Oral Histories interview with Thomas Moser.
19Interview with Marlowe Cassetti, 2018; French and Burgess, In the Shadow of the Moon, pp. 50–51; Murray and Cox, Apollo, p. 448.
20Kraft, Flight, p. 340; interview with Gerry Griffin, 2016.
21NASA Oral Histories interview with Joseph Allen; meta-analysis piggy-backing on Matthew Tribbe’s No Requiem for the Space Age and Gerard De Groot’s Dark Side of the Moon.
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Index
Figures are indicated by an italic f following the page/paragraph number
Aaron, John, 191–192,199,200
Abernathy, Ralph, 182
ablator, 34–35
accelerometer, 29–30
Agnew, Spiro, 195
Aldridge, Arnold, 56–57,199
Aldrin, Buzz, 188
Allen, Harvey, 34
Allen, Joe, 206–207,239
Altamont Pass, 195
American astronauts. See also Russian cosmonauts
Apollo 8 astronauts as Time magazine “man of the year,” 168
astronaut safety, 91
celebrity status of, 65–66
deploying lunar science projects, 206f
as field geologists, 206–207
first Earth orbit, 64–66
frustrated relationship with science, 206
loss of, 123–124
navigating home by star reference, 123–124
parade for, 66
radiation dosage on, 189
reaction to Saturn V’s launch, 159
space simulations for, 121–123
space walk, 104
training female, 81–82
training for lunar landing, 151–152
training of, 121–123
in vacuum chamber, 120
amp trap, 192
Anders, William, 166,168
Apollo 8
astronauts jarring takeoff, 159
barbecue mode, 161–162
Christmas Eve broadcast, 166
command mistype, 167
communication time delays, 163–164
earthrise photograph, 166
on far side of the Moon, 164–165
Gerry Griffin on, 159–160
launch of, 159–160
lunar orbit, 164–166
outbound trip, 159–162
path of, 161
radio black-out, 164
re-entry violence, 167–168
return to Earth, 166–168
space sickness during, 160–161
temperature extremes, 161–162
Apollo 11
Armstrong’s famous statement during, 186
astronaut quarantine, 189–190
celebrations for, 189
communication systems, 186–187
empty fuel tank warning, 184
lander descent, 182–184
landing radar, 183
launch of, 182
lunar landing module setting down, 185
Moon liftoff, 188
protests on, 182
radiation dosage on astronauts, 189
return to Earth, 188–189
splash down, 189
stepping on the Moon, 186–187
television audience and, 186
trip to the Moon, 182
TV signal, 186–187
United
States flag and, 181–182,188
warning alarms during, 183–184
Apollo 13
astronauts dehydrating during, 202
budgeting electricity, 200
carbon dioxide filters, 201
Cassetti on near tragedy of, 197
entering barbecue mode, 202
inter-center tensions discussing, 203
liquid oxygen tank malfunction, 197–198
near tragedy of, 197
oxygen tank explosion, 198–199
preparing for, 197
preparing for re-entry, 202
stirring oxygen tank, 198–199
Apollo 13 (film), 203–204
Apollo applications, 129–130
Apollo capsule, 35,133,150,213
Apollo display, 197
Apollo missions. See also Apollo 11; Apollo 13; Apollo 8; lunar landing module; return-on-investment
American’s interest in, 211–212
Apollo 1, 135–136,137–138
Apollo 7, launching of, 157–158
Apollo 9, 161,173–174,175–176
Apollo 10, 176–179
Apollo 12, 191–195
Apollo 14, 204–205
Apollo 15, 142f,207
Apollo 17, 210
autopilot for, 116
canceled, 220–221
close of, 210
command module, 133–134,138
declining television ratings, 211–212
extra-sensory perception experiments, 205
first manned, 157–158
geology field and, 205
goal of, 47–48,59
modules, 134f
negativity facing, 80
postpartum effects, 211
science experiments, 205,226–227
service module, 133–134
simulated countdown, 135–136
spacesuit for (see spacesuits)
step-by-step illustration, 178f
Apollo Soyuz program, 212–213
Apple Computer company, 219
Armitage, Peter, 44–45,232–233,235–236
Armstrong, Neil, 124,151–152,184–185,186,188,230–231
Arrow jet fighter, 37
ascent engine, 89–90
Astronauts. See American astronauts; Russian cosmonauts
Atlas missile, 39–40,45,47
Austin, Bob, 18–19,75,101–102,210
automated systems, 90–91
Bales, Steve, 13–14,183–184
barbecue mode, 161–162,202
Barton, Elmer, 233
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