I used to think MIT was a little odd when it came to selecting names for the spacecraft computer programs with all that weird preoccupation with the sun. But now I see they were right all the time and the rest of the world is nuts – let’s name the missions sequentially as they lift…
An introduction.
In the late 1960’s, Project Apollo was well underway. Spacecraft were being built, along with the launch vehicles required to break the bonds of the earth and send them to the moon. Crews were being trained, both on-and-off the job, in the basic techniques which would be required for such an audacious undertaking. Programs were…
About the project.
Digging Apollo is a personal project to transcribe into plaintext the authentic original “behind the scenes” documents of the Apollo program, starting with the collection of memorandums authored by Howard. W. Tindall, Jr., collectively known as “Tindallgrams”, though hopefully branching out into other resources as time goes on. The ultimate goal is create a cross-referenced,…