Essays by participants — engineers, astronauts, and administrators — recall the program's unprecedented challenges. Written in direct, jargon-free language, this compelling adventure features more than 160 dazzling color photographs and scores of black-and-white illustrations.

https://history.nasa.gov/SP-350/cover.html Includes index.

Introduction / Robert C. Seamans, Jr. -- A perspective on Apollo : the forces that set us on the path to the Moon / James E. Webb -- "I believe we should go to the Moon" : engineering what had never been done before / Robert R. Gilruth -- Saturn the giant : building the boosters to send men beyond Earth / Wernher von Braun -- The spaceships : building the first craft to cross an ocean of space / George M. Low -- Scouting the Moon : mechanical explorers went before human ones / Edgar M. Cortright -- The Cape : the new shopyard of space created for Apollo / Rocco A. Petrone -- "This is Mission Control" : how men on Earth aided men in space / Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. -- Men for the Moon : how they were chosen and trained / Robert Sherrod -- The shakedown cruises : bold steps preceded "one small step" / Samuel C. Phillips -- Getting it all together : critical tests of the total system / George E. Mueller -- "The Eagle has landed" : a goal attained, men on the Moon / Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. -- Ocean of storms and Fra Mauro : exploring on foot, emplacing automatic laboratories / Charles Conrad, Jr. and Alan B. Shepard, Jr. -- "Houston, we've had a problem" : a crippled bird limps safely home / James A. Lovell -- The great voyages of exploration : scientific expeditions return a rich harvest / Harrison H. Schmitt -- The legacy of Apollo : new understanding of ourselves and our world / Homer E. Newell.