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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts

Andrew Chaikin

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Nelson Elhage recommends it
It's a solid, well-sourced ("based on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with each of the twenty-four moon voyagers, as well as those who contributed their brain power, training and teamwork on Earth"), general overview of the heart of the Apollo program. Also an excellent entry point.

on blog.nelhage.com · 8 Apr 2019

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.