Kamecke, Theo
“Moonwalk One”
Molinare/the attic room
1969 (2009)
Movie Website
NY Times Review
Librarian’s Note: A long unseen documentary, this one is a wild flashback to the time of our first visit to the Moon.
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Sky at Night Magazine
“Man on the Moon - 40th Anniversary”
Collector’s Edition
BBC
2009
Publisher’s Web Site
Chaikin, Andrew & Alan Bean
“Mission Control, This is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon”
Viking
2009
ISBN13: 978-0-670-01156-8
Publisher’s Web Site
Author’s Web Site
NSS Reading Space Review
Bizony, Piers
“One Giant Leap: Apollo 11 Remembered”
Zenith Press/MBI Publishing
2009
ISBN13: 978-0-760-33710-8
Publisher’s Web Site
The Space Review Review
National Business Review Review
Chaikin, Andrew & Victoria Kohl
“Voices from the Moon”
Viking Studio/Penguin Group
2009
ISBN13: 978-0-670-02078-2
Publisher’s Web Site
collectSpace Review
Jacobs, Robert, Michael Cabbage, Constance Moore & Bertram Ulrich (Eds.)
“Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts”
Abrams
2009
ISBN13: 978-0-810-92146-7
Publisher’s Web Site
NASA Image Gallery
Moon Daily story
Pyle, Rod
“Missions to the Moon: The Complete Story of Man’s Greatest Adventure”
Sterling Publishing
2009
ISBN13: 978-1-402-76980-1
Publisher’s Web Site
Author’s Web Site
Space Coalition Blog Review
Librarian’s Note: This one contains removable reproductions of original documents.
Staff
“Popular Mechanics: First Moon Landing - 40th Anniversary Special”
Hearst Corporation
06/2009
ISSN: 0032-4558
On-Line Text
Launch Magazine Vol 4 # 6
MM Publishing
12/2008
ISSN 1933-4087
Publisher’s Web Site
Librarian’s Note: This is a good sign. I’m looking forward to Launch coming off of hiatus. This issue features some of the folks of the Dallas Area Rocket Society and a Saturn 1B project they did for a local Apollo event (pdf) also featured in this issue. A lot of folks at ConDFW this weekend were asking about Spaceport America, and I was able to show them the illustrations in the article (pdf) by Jim Oberg.
Hoffman, David
“Sputnik Mania”
History Films
2008
Librarian’s Note: This is quite a powerful film. It’s the first time I’d seen footage of Laika’s excited yipping whilst in space, but that chapter also carries the same pathos and tragedy of the recent historical graphic novel “Laika“, and helps give its elements fuller meaning. Later chapters in the movie are even grimmer as the nuclear cold war settled over the rival superpowers. Portions took me back to my teenage years in the early 80s, when ‘Ronnie Ray-Gun’ was pushing the Soviets and we had movies like ‘The Day After’ and ‘Threads’ and that TV one set in Charleston Harbor and ‘Red Dawn’. Some of the language carries a timeless and more recent vintage flavor, where ‘those who wish to destroy our way of life’ have changed from the now gone(?) Soviets to the new ‘terrorists’. Nevertheless, it does end on a note of hope, and one comes away with the feeling of seeing a truer documentary and less of a feel-good historical re-telling.
de Goursac, Olivier
“Lune”
Tallandier
2009
ISBN13: 978-2-847-34213-0
Publisher’s Web Site
Sample Images
Librarian’s Note: M. de Goursac has enjoyed wandering through the different sections of the Lunar Library, and has crafted a number of desktop wallpapers to share with fellow visitors. Get yourself in the mood for this year’s 40th anniversary of Apollo 11.
Enjoy!
Alan Bean - Apollo Moon.
Not used with permission
Bean, Alan
The Alan Bean Gallery
On-line Moon Art Gallery
Best of the Moon 2008 - Cultura Lunaris
Librarian’s Note: It’s tough to get Moonwalker artist/astronaut Alan Bean out of his art studio. I was lucky enough to meet him a couple years ago at the Fair Park Planetarium re-opening, and had him autograph the copy of his book Apollo in the Lunar Library. He also has some art on display down in Austin at the LBJ Presidential Library for the exhibit “To The Moon - The American Space Program in the 1960s”
h/t to Space for Commerce
Mindell, David A.
“Digital Apollo: Human & Machine in Spaceflight”
The MIT Press
2008
ISBN13: 978-0-262-13497-2
Publisher’s Web Site
Publisher’s Web Site
Technology Review Review
NPR story
Best of the Moon 2008 - Apollo
Reichhardt, Tony
“Finding Apollo”
Air & Space Magazine
09/2008
On-Line Text
Discovery Channel
“When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions”
Dangerous Films
2008
Publisher’s Web Site
collectSPACE Review
The New York Times Review
Schedule:
* Friends and Rivals (June 8th)
* The Explorers (June 15th)
* Home in Space (June 22nd)
21:00 EST/PST
Ron Howard presents Discovery Films
“In the Shadow of the Moon”
Lionsgate Films
2007 (2008)
Publisher’s Web Site
NYTimes Review
SciFi.com Review
NSS Reading Space Review
Librarian’s Note: This is a powerful documentary, and one of the finest Apollo documentaries around. Mike Collins is clearly the star of the show, but so too is the ice and fire of the Saturn launch, or Buzz’s long pause on the way down to the surface, or Charlie Duke posing the question “If we were going to fake going to the Moon, why would we do it nine times?” Best seen on the biggest screen you can find with the loudest system you can get your hands on, because that Saturn thunders!
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Godwin, Robert (ed.)
“Apollo Advanced Lunar Exploration Planning”
Apogee Books
11/2007
ISBN: 978-1-894-95980-3
Publisher’s Web Site
Tom Hanks Presents
“Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon”
IMAX Corporation
2005 (2007)
Publisher’s Web Site
Librarian’s Note: About freakin’ time! A textbook example of what happens when you don’t throw any marketing muscle behind a flick, this is a phenomenal movie that practically no one saw. Sort of an Apollo documentary, partially an exploration of what ifs, a bit of sentimental pedagogy, and lots of gorgeous, gorgeous images, especially of the Hadley Rille visit. Oh, and Ms. Commander Lugo, that’s my job you’re talking about!
Best of the Moon 2007 - Moon Movie
Harvey, Brian
“Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration”
Springer-Praxis Books in Space Exploration
2007
ISBN: 0-387-21896-3
Publisher’s Web Site
Espace Magazine - le Magazine de l’Exploration Spatiale
Spécial Apollo
No 28 - Spécial Portfolio
Publisher’s Web Site
Librarian’s Note: Another beautiful issue. 98 pages of luscious photos, well-presented pedagogical material, diagrams, charts, schemas, tables and more. I’ve got to make sure to get my renewal in soon.
Best of the Moon 2007 - Apollo
Launch Magazine
Mm Publishing
Mar/Apr 2007
Publishers’s Website
Librarian’s Note: This issue features the construction of the Semroc Saturn 1B model rocket, and features a lengthy interview with Walt Cunningham, who flew on the Apollo 7 mission that tested out the command module. That capsule is on display at the Frontiers of Flight museum here in Dallas, which will be one of the tours offered for the ISDC.
Godwin, Robert (Ed.)
“Apollo Training: Apollo Spacecraft & Systems Familiarization”
Apogee Books
2007
ISBN13: 978-1-894-95979-7
Publisher’s Web Site
French, Francis & Colin Burgess
“In The Shadow Of The Moon”
University of Nebraska Press
2007
ISBN13: 978-0-803-21128-5
Publisher’s Web Site
