From the Book - The fiftieth anniversary edition.
Foreword to 50th anniversary edition
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 shipyard 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.
