Board of Directors
Walt Cunningham
John P. Healy
John R. (Jack) Garman
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Editors
Ron Burkey
Fabrizio Bernardini
Archivist
Marilyn Chang
Contacts
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Volunteering
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What is the Apollo History Foundation?
The Apollo History Foundation is
a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the legacy of the
Apollo Program by preserving
the documentation of the program and making it permanently available
for online public viewing. Three basically different methods for
accumulating this documentation are pursued:
- Apollo Program documentation already available online but
spread across many diverse websites is aggregated into a single
convenient library.
- Apollo Program documentation locked up as physical
documents in museums or public archives is digitized.
- Apollo Program documentation kept as physical souvenirs
by collectors or original Apollo Program personnel is digitized.
Does the Foundation Have a Special Emphasis?
Any documentation from the Apollo
Program is of interest and will be accepted for inclusion in the
project, as well as any documentation from the Mercury or Gemini
Programs. However, because of the vast amount of such
documentation available and because resources are always finite,
special emphasis is placed on technical documentation, and specifically
on documentation that would assist in the following:
- Reconstructing working Apollo spacecraft.
- Computer simulation of Apollo spacecraft.
- Flying Apollo missions using reconstructed or simulated
spacecraft.
Additionally, the Foundation may provide open-source software for the
purpose of providing computer simulations of Apollo spacecraft or
portions of Apollo spacecraft.
Our Library
The Foundation does not have the resources to physically warehouse the
enormous quantity of documentation associated with the Apollo
Project. Physical warehousing is properly done by museums or
other repositories such as the National Archives.
Instead, the Foundation digitizes physical Apollo documents and then
the physical copies are returned to their owners. In some cases,
arrangements can be made to digitize documentation at owner sites so
that owners can retain physical possession of their documents at all
times; this is generally done only when the amount of documentation is
very large or it is of very great importance. Submissions of
digital copies made by document owners are also accepted. ( Please refer to our document-preparation guidelines.)
If owners so wish, we can provide advice or contacts for transferring
their documents to museums or to the National Archives.
A Special Plea!
If you are the owner of any Mercury, Gemini, or Apollo Program
documentation, and are considering disposing of it—by selling it,
sending it to a museum, or simply by throwing it away—please
consider providing a digital copy to the Foundation first. You
should realize in particular that documents archived in museums cannot
usually be reproduced or internally inspected by the general public, so
once a document is in a museum its contents effectively become secret.
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Whenever legally possible, the documentation we have collected is
available freely online. In many cases, the online library
contains a reduced-quality form of higher-resolution digital documents
that can be made available to historical researchers; contact us
directly if you are a researcher with such a need. Where
possible, the Foundation also retains provenance information that may
be useful to researchers but that is not appropriately displayed online.
Related Online Resources
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