Solar System Missions: The Apollo Program
By Aira Astralis
Length1h 52m
About this audiobook
Apollo was the program that answered a presidential promise with a spacecraft. When John F. Kennedy told Congress in May 1961 that Americans would walk on the Moon before the decade's end, the United States had flown one astronaut on a brief hop; eight years later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stood in the Sea of Tranquility. Six missions landed twelve explorers on the lunar surface, the last in December 1972, and the program that dared the Moon survived a fatal pad fire, an in-flight explosion, and the slow erosion of its budget.
This book tells the whole story in plain language. The early chapters carry the decisions: the program's origins under Eisenhower, the naming by Abe Silverstein, the mode debate that settled on lunar orbit rendezvous, the growth of the Manned Spacecraft Center and the Cape's Launch Operations Center, and the design of the command, service, and lunar modules and the Saturn rockets that threw them at the sky.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning
Length1 hr 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
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Publish dateOct 22, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Chapter 1: Before the Decision: Apollo's Origins and Kennedy's Challenge
3Chapter 2: The Goal and the Growth: Building the Organization
4Chapter 3: The Mode Debate: Charting the Way to the Moon
5Chapter 4: The Command and Service Modules: Design Under Debate
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6Chapter 5: The Lunar Module and the First Saturns
7Chapter 6: The Saturn V, the Astronauts, and the Test Flights
8Chapter 7: Fire on the Pad: Apollo 1
9Chapter 8: The Road Back: Apollo 4 through Apollo 8
10Chapter 9: Triumph and Peril: Apollo 9 through 13
11Chapter 10: Science on the Moon: The Later Missions and the Samples
12Chapter 11: After the Landings: Budgets, Myths, and New Purposes
13Chapter 12: The View from Earth: Legacy, Lost Tapes, and Popular Culture
14Chapter 13: The Missions That Never Flew: Apollo's Unbuilt Future
15Chapter 14: Skylab, ASTP, and the Training Behind the Missions
16Conclusion
17References: The Apollo Program
18Glossary
19About the Author
20Series Info
21Copyright
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