Apollo: Expeditions to the moon

This is one of the invaluable books available discussing the technological history of Project Apollo. Edited by Edgar M. Cortright, "Apollo Expeditions to the Moon," was published as SP-350 by NASA in 1975. This large-format volume, with numerous illustrations in both color and black and white, is important in no small part because it contains essays by numerous luminaries ranging from NASA administrator James E. Webb ("A Perspective on Apollo") to astronauts Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin ("The Eagle Has Landed"). By no means a scholarly work, this collection consists rather of the recollections of participants and one correspondent (Robert Sherrod). Among the perspectives offered are those of Robert R. Gilruth (Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston) on engineering, Wernher von Braun (Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama) on Saturn, George M. Low (Apollo Spacecraft Project Manager and later NASA Deputy Administrator) on the spaceships,