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What Apollo and cool-era primary stuff do people read?

Personally, I've read the Godwin anthologies for Apollos 7, 8, 9, 12, 13 and 14. I've read the complete Apollo 12 Lunar Surface Journal and am halfway through ALSEP offload of Apollo 14. I am on Section 10 of the Apollo 12 Mission Report. I have also read the Godwin Anthology for Freedom 7 and am currently on Gemini 6 and reading through the section just before Seperation in the Technical Debrief, where they're talking about the circles impressed on 7 by the thrusters. It takes me a long time to read through the debriefings because they are so hard to follow.
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Just finished reading the complete Lunar Surface Journal for Apollo 17 (boy was it long) in anticipation of receiving the Apollo 17 DVD from Spacecraftfilms.com. BTW, I pre-ordered this last year. It was supposed to be shipped on July 15th. Has anyone else here who pre-ordered A17 (if any) received it yet?
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I've got all the Godwin Mission Reports published so far (I think), plus a Saturn V News Reference plus some additional material as published by "World Spaceflight News." I don't particularly recommend the latter: it cost an arm and a leg, and when it arrived it was a three-ring binder with poor-quality, single-sided photocopies of NASA materials.
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Personally, I've read the Godwin anthologies for Apollos 7, 8, 9, 12, 13 and 14. I've read the complete Apollo 12 Lunar Surface Journal and am halfway through ALSEP offload of Apollo 14. I am on Section 10 of the Apollo 12 Mission Report. I have also read the Godwin Anthology for Freedom 7 and am currently on Gemini 6 and reading through the section just before Seperation in the Technical Debrief, where they're talking about the circles impressed on 7 by the thrusters.
Just add those to my reading list, I've always been a junkie for history channel stuff on Apollo and am looking for some better information on the more technical side of the missions.
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I think another good book is,

Apollo: Race to the Moon by Charles Murray and Catherine Cox.

It is a behind the scenes book, based on numerous interviews of NASA and contractor personel. Very little is about the astronauts.

This book is prized among those who collect Apollo/NASA stuff and a used copy goes for about 50-100$ on ebay. Most good libraries have a copy.

You might also want to try the NASA history office. A lot of their stuff is free or available as a pdf.

http://history.nasa.gov/what.html

or

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/on-line.html

If you've got a lot of time to kill, you can go to the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project and read 50-100 page interviews of hundreds of people who worked on the space program.

www.jsc.nasa.gov/history
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