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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo AstronautsBook

by Andrew Chaikin

Who uses, recommends or left A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Nelson Elhage
Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding systems; previously at Anthropic, Stripe and Ksplice.
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It's a solid, well-sourced ("based on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with each of the twenty-four moon voyagers, as well as those who contributed their brain power, training and teamwork on Earth"), general overview of the heart of the Apollo program. Also an excellent entry point.

His Apollo bibliography — the books and films about the Apollo program he recommends, roughly ordered by how strongly he recommends them.

2019-04-08·blog.nelhage.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

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