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posted 07-20-2012 8:01 PM               

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For this anniversary of Eagle's landing, I posted the handwritten notes of the Grumman engineers on the Eagle's development leading up to the selection of LM-5 as the one to first land on the moon. I believe these have been unavailable until now.

They document a continuous stream of electrical problems and worker exhaustion in the months prior to launch and serve as an intercom between the day and night shift.

I also did some research and posted the Apollo XI Goodwill Disc (inscribed with letters from the world's leaders) that Buzz left on the moon, using the technologies being developed by the nascent semiconductor industry

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posted 07-21-2012 10:25 AM               

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Thanks Steve for sharing this and in particular, scanning and posting the entire notebook as a PDF. Looking forward to reading through it.

Steve's Flickr post also drew the attention of Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin, who highlighted the notebook and silicon disc in a post today.

Great exposure for space artifacts — and hopefully a good kickstart to getting the community to start exploring the Grumman engineers' notes...

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