National Geographic magazine has a really good special feature on the pioneers, maps of the moon, impact on popular culture and the future of space travel.
Relieve some early BBC broadcasts of the preparations
Out of the budgets appropriated for NASA each year approximately 50% went directly for human spaceflight, and the vast majority of that went directly toward Apollo. Between 1959 and 1973 NASA spent $23.6 billion on human spaceflight, exclusive of infrastructure and support, of which nearly $20 billion was for Apollo
Histories of the Space Programme
NASA has a wealth of historical materials relating to Apollo 11
including audio files.
Background selected documents from the US government on the history of the space programme
Project Apollo technical drawings and diagrams
Apollo Lunar Surface Journal- The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal is a record of the lunar surface operations conducted by the six pairs of astronauts who landed on the Moon from 1969 through 1972. It includes a corrected transcript of all recorded conversations between the lunar surface crews and Houston.
Apollo Image Archive. Made available Johnson Space Center and Arizona State University's Space Exploration Resources
in 1999 NASA history office produced this summary
Physics Teacher has just published an introductory article summarising key achievements which could be emphasised to students
The American Museum of Natural History also has an introductory blog posting.
The Scientific Legacy of Apollo Ian A. Crawford, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck College, Article published in the December 2012 issue of the Royal Astronomical Society’s
journal Astronomy and Geophysics (Vol. 53, pp. 6.24-6.28). available via Arxiv.org
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