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Post by slang on Feb 14, 2010 16:03:03 GMT -4
A more direct source is ntrs.nasa.gov/This is the NASA Technical Reports Server. Just type in some Apollo keywords and you'll be amazed at the amount of stuff that comes back. Not all of it is available on line, but most of it is and the rest can be obtained on paper or microfilm. Thanks, this was helpful in finding what was planned for the Apollo 11 EVA. The returned record indicated that the document was not available online, but it thanks to a Google search for the document title it turned out to be available on history.nasa.gov ( here). Just sayin', don't give up because the website above lists a document as not available online.
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Post by dwight on Feb 15, 2010 14:20:11 GMT -4
If you want a more comprehensive archive of NASA documents, the University of Houston Clear-Lake has an enormous facility. For LIVE TV FROM THE MOON I obtained copies of around 75% of my total research material from them. www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/has the links to both the Archive and History collection. Be prepared to spend many a good hour looking up material. However, you need to organize copies of the documents as none exist on line, but it is a darn side cheaper than ordering material from the NTRS site. I have come to regard the NTRS as the cursory introduction the documents, whereby the JSC history portal is the Bible.
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Post by ka9q on Feb 15, 2010 15:41:03 GMT -4
Thanks for the pointer to the JSC history portal. The Internet is one of the best things that ever happened to NASA, and they were certainly one of the first federal agencies to really make good use of it. I was 12 during Apollo 11, and I always felt frustrated having to rely on what tiny nuggets of information the news media saw fit to pass on to us during the missions. I would have gone nuts if the Internet had been around during Apollo.
Given all of this readily available technical information, it's simply astounding that many Apollo conspiracists continue to maintain that "NASA destroyed all the Apollo blueprints!" They actually seem to think that we don't have enough information on Apollo to study the designs and see for ourselves that the systems could actually do what they were said to do.
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