Taking Science to the Moon: Lunar Experiments and the Apollo Program

"Transports the reader behind NASAs facade, and into the 1960s' politics, planning sessions, turf battles, camaraderie, and jealousies of the world's major space agency. An absorbing, insightful, and revealing critical history." -- The Observatory

Gordon A. Swann

An excellent account of the workings at NASA headquarters leading up to and during the Apollo era. The author, a geologist and former navy jet pilot, spent a significant amount of his career assuring that good science be done on the Moon. Those of us who participated in that science owe much to Don.

Donald A. Beattie is a former NASA engineer who has also worked with the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. He currently works as a private consultant. He is the author of History and Overview of Solar Heat Technologies.