Two Essential Books
Wilhelms D. E. (1987) The Geologic History of the Moon. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1348, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC. 302 pp.
Heiken G. H., Vaniman D. T., and French B. M., eds. (1991) The Lunar Sourcebook: A User's Guide to the Moon. Cambridge University Press, New York. 736 pp.
History
Bean A. and Chaikin A. (1998) Apollo: An Eyewitness Account By Astronaut/Exlorer Artist/Moonwaker Alan Bean. Grennwich Workshop Press, Shelton. 176 pp.Cernan E. and Davis D. (1999) The Last Man on the Moon. St. Martins Press, New York. 356 pp.
Chaikin A. (1999) A Man on the Moon 30th Anniversary Commemorative Book Set . Time-Life Books, Alexandria. 960 pp.
Collins M. (1974) Carrying The Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys. Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, New York. 478 pp.
Compton W. D. (1989) Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions. NASA Special Publication 4214, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC. 415 pp.
Harland D. M. (1999) Exploring the Moon: The Apollo Expeditions. Springer, New York. 411 pp.
Hoyt W. G. (1987) Coon Mountain Controversies: Meteor Crater and the Development of Impact Theory. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 443 pp.
Lewis R. S. (1974) The Voyages of Apollo: The Exploration of the Moon. New York Times Book Company, New York. 308 pp.
McDougall W. A. (1985) The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age. Basic Books, New York. 555 pp.
Murray C. and Cox C. B. (1989) Apollo: The Race to the Moon. Simon and Schuster, New York. 506 pp.
Oberg J. E. (1981) Red Star in Orbit. Random House, New York. 272 pp.
O'Leary B. (1970) The Making of an Ex-Astronaut. Houghton-Mifflin, Boston. 243 pp.
Spudis P. D. (1996) The Once and Future Moon. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington. 306 pp.
Wilhelms D. E. (1993) To a Rocky Moon: A Geologist's History of Lunar Exploration. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 477 pp.
Wolfe T. (1979) The Right Stuff. Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, New York. 437 pp.
Zimmerman, R. (1998) Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8: The First Manned Flight to Another World. Four Walls Eight Windows, New York. 299 pp.
Lunar Classics
Baldwin R. B. (1949) The Face of the Moon. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 239 pp.
Hartmann W. K., Phillips R. J., and Taylor G. J., eds. (1986) Origin of the Moon. Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston. 781 pp.
Mendell W. W., ed. (1985) Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century. Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston. 865 pp.
Mutch T. A. (1970) The Geology of the Moon: A Stratigraphic View. Princeton University Press, Princeton. 324 pp.
Schultz P. H. (1976) Moon Morphology: Interpretations Based on Lunar Orbiter Photography. University of Texas Press, Austin. 626 pp.
Taylor S. R. (1975) Lunar Science: A Post-Apollo View. Pergamon Press, New York. 372 pp.
Urey H. C. (1952) The Planets: Their Origin and Development. Yale University Press, New Haven. 245 pp.
Popular Accounts of Lunar Science and Exploration
Cooper H. F. S. (1969) Apollo on the Moon. Dial Press, New York. 144 pp.
Cooper H. F. S. (1970) Moon Rocks. Dial Press, New York. 197 pp.
Cortwright E. M., ed. (1975) Apollo Expeditions to the Moon. NASA Special Publication 350, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC. 313 pp.
French B. M. (1977) The Moon Book. Penguin Press, New York. 287 pp.
Lewis J. S. and Lewis R. A. (1987) Space Resources: Breaking the Bonds of Earth. Columbia University Press, New York. 418 pp.
Masursky H., Colton G. W., and El-Baz F. (1978) Apollo over the Moon: A View From Orbit. NASA Special Publication 362, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC. 255 pp.
Wood J. A. (1979) The Solar System. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. 196 pp.
Book and Magazine Articles
Burns J. O., Duric N., Taylor G. J., and Johnson S. W. (1990) Observatories on the Moon. Scientific American, 262(3), 42-49 (March 1990).
Burt D. M. (1989) Mining the Moon. American Scientist, 77(6), 574-579 (November-December 1989).
Editors of Time-Life (1991) Earth's companion. In Moons and Rings, pp. 6-49. Voyage Through the Universe series, Time-Life Books, Alexandria, Virginia.
Ryder G. (1994) Apollo's Gift: The Moon. Astronomy, 22(7), 40-45 (July 1994).
Spudis P. D. (1992) An argument for human exploration of the Moon and Mars. American Scientist, 80(3), 269-277 (May-June 1992).
Spudis P. D. (1990) The Moon. In The New Solar System, 3rd edition (J. K. Beatty and A. Chaikin, eds.), pp. 41-52. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, and Sky Publishing, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Taylor G. J. (1994) The scientific legacy of Apollo. Scientific American, 271(1), 26-33 (July 1994).
Taylor S. R. (1987) The origin of the Moon. American Scientist, 75(5), 469-477 (September-October 1987).
Wilhelms D. E. (1984) Moon. In The Geology of the Terrestrial Planets (M. H. Carr, ed.), pp. 107-125. NASA Special Publication 469, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC.
Lunar Atlases and Maps
Bowker D. E. and Hughes J. K. (1971) Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon. NASA Special Publication 206, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC. 41 pp., 675 plates.
Rükl A. (1990) Hamlyn Atlas of the Moon (T. W. Rackham, ed.), Paul Hamlyn Publishing, London, 224 pp. (Available directly by mail order from Astronomy magazine.)
National Geographic Society (1976) The Earth's Moon, 2nd edition. Cartographic Division, National Geographic Society, Washington DC.
Moon Lore and Mythology
Brueton D. (1991) Many Moons. Prentice Hall Press, New York. 256 pp.
Guiley R. E. (1991) Moonscape. Prentice Hall Press, New York. 192 pp.
Movies and Videos
Documentaries and History
From The Earth To The Moon (1998) Imagine Entertainment Productions, 12-episode series. HBO Home Video, 640 min.
To the Moon and Beyond (1992) WQED, Episode 4 in "Space Age." WQED- Pittsburgh, Public Media Video, 60 min.
Moonshot (1994) TBS Productions. Turner Home Video, 2 parts, 240 min.
Spaceflight (1985) PBS, Pacific Arts Video, 4 parts, 240 min.
For All Mankind (1989) National Geographic Video, 79 min.
To the Moon (1999) NOVA Special. WGBH-Boston Video, 120 min.
Three Lunar Feature Film Classics
Destination Moon (1950) George Pal, Producer, Sinister Cinema Video, 91 min.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick, Producer, MGM Video, 139 min.
Apollo 13 (1995) Brian Grazer, Producer, Universal Pictures, 130 min.
Other Items
The NASA Mission Reports. A series of books (some with CD-ROMs) compiled by Robert Godwin of mission documents from the Apollo 7 through (as of this update) Apollo 13 missions.
Remembering Apollo 11: The 30th Anniversary Data Archive CD-ROM. Published by the NASA History Office, 1999. Available from NASA Central Operation of Resources for Educators (CORE).
Swanson, G. (1999) Before This Decade is Out: Personal Reflections on the Apollo Program. NASA Special Publication 4223, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC. 408 pp.