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Apollo 11 Mission Report
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Apollo 11 Mission Report. NASA SP-238. Washington, DC: NASA, 1971.
Why this matters here
NASA’s Apollo 11 Mission Report and related flight-operations accounts record the lunar descent, including program alarms 1201/1202 and the guidance team’s judgment—associated with Steve Bales—that descent could continue. The World We Make Together uses that moment to show collective judgment the later photograph of an astronaut on the surface cannot display. The report documents mission operations; the book asks who makes history when the image erases the room that kept the landing possible.
