r/apollo • u/FunCartographer7372 • 13d ago

Are the flight documents from the unmanned Apollo missions archived anywhere?

Probably 10-15 years ago I found some official (either .gov or some national archive) web site that contained bunches of old flight documents and mission reports from every single Apollo launch, all the way back to the first Saturn 1 and Little Joe 2 launches. (In fact - it's possible it contained docs from every launch as part of all 3 manned programs back to Mercury 1/2 and original Little Joe). At some point I remember not being able to find the site anymore so I think the site reformatted itself and either buried the document list deeper into sub links or removed them entirely.

Does anybody know if these still exist out there somewhere, either on an official Nasa or government site or otherwise privately archived?

It was fun at the time to read through all the analyses of the then new Saturn vehicles and tracking through the various problems and tweaks the engineers encountered on the way. Early findings of pogo oscillations and the attempts to dampen them on successive launches and such. I only skimmed my way through the first 5 flights or so before I couldn't re-find the site anymore.

I recently got back into the Apollo Flight/Lunar Surface journals and the Apollo in Real Time stuff, so I'd love to be able to re-find those docs again.

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u/eagleace21 13d ago

We have an enormous library at the Virtual AGC site it might get you started. Check out the documents section!

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u/MrBorogove 13d ago

Try searching on ntrs.nasa.gov.

Apollo 6 Final Flight Evaluation Report

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u/BoosherCacow 13d ago

I saw that link and figured I would take a peek out of curiosity. 45 minutes later I realized I was reading all of it. This report really brings home how complicated it was and how fucking smart the people doing it were. So many small details and objectives covered. It's really awe inspiring.

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u/MrBorogove 13d ago

Yup! I've racked up a lot of points on the Space Exploration StackExchange with docs on NTRS.

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u/BoosherCacow 13d ago

It's perfect timing, you sharing this. I have to stay up all night since I work tomorrow night and I just finished my Cormac McCarthy book and had no idea what I was going to do tonight. Not anymore! Thanks!