[LetThereBeLight]

To anyone interested in early space flight and the Apollo missions, I strongly recommend reading Michael Collins's memoir Carrying the Fire. It is quite amazing all the training that the astronauts had to go through so they could manually perform various tasks and measurements, since the computing capacity was extremely limited.

[KineticLensman]

> I strongly recommend reading Michael Collins's memoir Carrying the Fire

Can confirm. Read it a couple of months ago and decided it was the best of the Apollo-era biographies and autobiographies that I've read.

[prennert]

Also the excellently produced podcast "13 minutes to the moon" by BBC world service.