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sho_hn 7 hours ago

A few books that I whole-heartedly recommend:

- "Digital Apollo", a book about HCI, the tension between automation and human-in-the-loop, the history of systems engineering and minutae of each Apollo landing through those lenses. If you want a heavy dose of interesting, inspiring and thought-provoking HCI and embedded engineering lessons and anecdotes in context of the most thrilling examples possible you'll love this.

- "Sunburst and Luminary", the really quite charming and lively memoir by Apollo software engineer Don Eyles.

- "Apollo" by Cox and Murray, a go-to general history of the Apollo program that emphasizes program management and engineering far more than the astronauts.

This + the CuriousMarc videos and you'll feel spaceflight mini expert high, and be quite capable of maybe flying a landing in one of the emulators, actually understand the technical jargon in any of the Apollo landing videos or the Apollo 13 incident video, or appreciate some AGC source code.

kqr 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I second these recommendations and want to add Go, Flight for some of the in-flight coordination and engineering perspective.