Lunar Orbit Rendezvous
- John M. Logsdon, "Selecting the Way to the Moon: The Choice of the Lunar Orbital Rendezvous Mode," Aerospace Historian 18, no. 2 (June 1971): 63-70. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44524709 - https://spacese.spacegrant.org/uploads/Homework3/Apollo_LOR_1971_Logsdon.pdf
- Enchanted Rendezvous https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19960014824.pdf
- The Apollo Lunar Orbit Rendezvous Architecture Decision Revisited https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/8042/SSEC_SE2_doc.pdf
- Lunar orbit rendezvous : news conference on Apollo plans at NASA headquarters on July 11, 1962.
- NASA SP-4009: The Apollo Spacecraft - A Chronology https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4009/contents.htm
- LM Rendezvous Procedures - G Mission https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700025407.pdf
- CSM Rendezvous Procedures - G Mission https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700025402.pdf
- weight advantages of use of a parking orbit for lunar soft landing mission
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4308/ch8.htm
Other mission modes
- Allyn B. Hazard, "A Plan for Manned Lunar and Planetary Exploration," November 1959.
Landing
- Tom Kelly, Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module
- Apollo Lunar Landing Mission Symposium https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/LunarLandingMIssionSymposium1966_1978075303.pdf
- Handling Qualities for Pilot Control of Apollo Lunar-Landing Spacecraft, http://web.mit.edu/digitalapollo/Documents/Chapter8/cheathamlempaper.pdf
- Where on the Moon? An Apollo Systems Engineering Problem https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-7305.1972.tb02642.x
- Apollo lunar module documentation https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/alsj-LMdocs.html
- LM landing gear https://web.archive.org/web/20100201083530/http://astronautix.com/craft/lmlggear.htm
- The Lunar Module: A National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark https://www.asme.org/wwwasmeorg/media/ResourceFiles/AboutASME/Who%20We%20Are/Engineering%20History/Landmarks/218-Apollo-Lunar-Module-LM-13.pdf
- Gavin, Joseph G.: 'Engineering Development of the Apollo Lunar Module' (IAA-90-633), 41st IAF Congress, Dresden, Germany, 6–12 October 1990, p.
- Kelly, Thomas. "Design features of the project Apollo lunar module (LM)." 16th Annual Meeting and Technical Display. 1981. doi: 10.2514/6.1981-910.
- Kelly, Thomas. "A review of the Apollo Lunar Module program and its lessons for future space missions." Space Programs and Technologies Conference. 1990. doi: 10.2514/6.1990-3617.
- Kelly, Thomas. "Manned lunar lander design-The Project Apollo Lunar Module (LM)." Space Programs and Technologies Conference. 1992. doi: 10.2514/6.1992-1480.
- Williamson, Mark. "Man on the Moon: the technology of lunar exploration." Engineering Science & Education Journal 11.6 (2002): 217-226. https://doi.org/10.1049/esej:20020602
- Armstrong, Neil. "Lunar lander–the development of the Apollo Lunar Module." Spacecraft Technology: The Early Years 33 (2006): 293.
- Marien, Greg. "Engineering design challenges of the lunar lander." Space 2004 Conference and Exhibit. 2004. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2004-5889
Apollo Guidance Computer
- HAMILTON, MH. "Computer Got Loaded." Datamation 17.5 (1971): 13.
- David Mindell, Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflighthttp://encore.slcl.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2477856
- Source code (Luminary 1A): https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/
- David Hoag, The History of Apollo On-Board Guidance, Navigation, and Control. http://klabs.org/history/history_docs/mit_docs/1711.pdf
- A Yellow Caution Light https://history.nasa.gov/SP-350/ch-11-4.html
- Apollo 11 Program Alarms https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a11/a11.1201-pa.html
- Tales from the Lunar Module Guidance Computer http://klabs.org/history/apollo_11_alarms/eyles_2004/eyles_2004.htm
- The Apollo Guidance Computer: A Users View http://klabs.org/history/history_docs/ech/agc_scott.pdf
- The Apollo Guidance Computer https://web.archive.org/web/20070612155102/http://authors.library.caltech.edu/5456/01/hrst.mit.edu/hrs/apollo/public/
- Computers Take Flight: A History of NASA's Pioneering Digital Fly-by-Wire Project http://www.klabs.org/history/history_docs/reports/dfbw_tomayko.pdf
- Apollo Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Hardware Overview https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20090016290.pdf
- MIT Apollo GNC http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/hrst/archive/1706.pdf
Proposals
Feasibility studies (1961)
- Martin: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19750064557_1975064557.pdf
- GE: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19730064728_1973064728.pdf
- GD/Convair:
General
- Courtney G. Brooks. James M. Grimwood and Loyd S. Swenson, Jr., Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft (1979). https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4205/cover.htmlhttps://history.nasa.gov/SP-4205.pdf
- LPI, Apollo-era documents: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/documents/
- The Secret of Apollo
- http://www.thespacereview.com/article/727/1
- Journey to the Moon Apollo: The Definitive Sourcebook
- Robert Seamans, Project Apollo: The Tough Decisions https://history.nasa.gov/monograph37.pdf
- https://ethw.org/First-Hand:Reliability_Engineering_at_GE_Apollo_Support_Department
- Apollo Systems https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19670009662.pdf
- Project Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis https://history.nasa.gov/Apollomon/Apollo.html
- MIT's Role in Project Apollo https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/hrst/archive/967.pdf
- The Role of JSC Engineering Simulation in the Apollo Program https://doi.org/10.1177%2F003754979105700105
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/apollo-program
- The Apollo Spacecraft, volume 4 https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/documents/NTRS/collection3/NASA_SP_4009-4.pdf
- Samuel Phillips and the Taming of Apollo https://www.jstor.org/stable/25147800
- The Apollo Experience https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56c78acd0442626b2590f5ea/t/5911458ae4fcb530d26508b6/1494304139529/The+Apollo+Experience.pdf
- Seamans, Project Apollo: The Tough Decisions https://history.nasa.gov/monograph37.pdf
- Interview with Joseph Shea 1998-11-26 https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/SheaJF/SheaJF_8-26-98.pdf
- Local Engineering and Systems Engineering: Cultural Conflict at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, 1960-1966 https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2005.0145
- Phillips Report https://web.archive.org/web/20041031163139/https://history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/phillip1.html
Other
- The One-Way Manned Space Mission," John M. Cord & Leonard M. Seale, Aerospace Engineering, December 1962, pp. 60-61, 94-102.
- Voas, Robert B. "A description of the astronaut's task in Project Mercury." Human Factors 3.3 (1961): 149-165. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F001872086100300301