Original NASA Apollo 11 Press Kit

NASA’s official 250-page press kit issued ahead of Apollo 11, the first crewed lunar landing, covering the prime and backup crews, the launch from Complex 39-A and translunar injection, and labeled cutaway diagrams of the Command, Service, and Lunar Modules.

A substantial section details the mission’s contamination-control program built around the returning crew and lunar samples: the Biological Isolation Garment worn on splashdown, the Mobile Quarantine Facility, the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, and spacecraft sterilization procedures. Closes with lists of Apollo/Saturn program officials and major contractors, the principal investigators assigned to study the lunar surface samples, and an Apollo glossary, acronym list, and conversion-factor tables.