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Key Apollo Source Documents
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President John F. Kennedy Memo for Vice President, 20 April 1961
Lyndon B. Johnson, Vice President, Memo for the President, "Evaluation of Space Program," 28 April 1961
Wernher von Baun to the Vice President, 29 April 1961
Overton Brooks to the Vice President, 4 May 1961
John F. Kennedy, Excerpts from "Urgent National Needs" Speech to a joint session of Congress, 25 May 1961
Remarks by Wernher von Braun about Mode Selection for the Lunar Landing Program, 7 June 1962
George Mueller to Director, Manned Spacecraft Center, Revised Manned Space Flight Schedule," 31 October 1963
Report of Apollo 204 Review Board to the NASA Administrator, 5 April 1967
NASA Apollo Program Director to NASA Associate Adminsitrator for Manned Space Flight, "Apollo 8 Mission Selection," 11 November 1968
NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, "Apollo 11 Technical Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription," July 1969, pp. 317-19, 375-77
President Richard Nixon to Direcotr, Apollo Program, 21 March 1972
Updated January 14, 1999
Roger D. Launius, NASA Chief Historian
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