
As you come to STEM Moon Shot area, you will get your Flight Plan to begin your exploration of the event and BSU’s Engineering & Science Festival. Well, this has a basis in the Apollo program AND every spaceflight since NASA started sending rockets into space.
A flight plan is an incredibly detailed and “engineered” document that allows all members of both the ground crew and spacecraft astronauts to complete their mission. Every aspect of the mission is planned down to the minute–even down to the second at certain points.
Look at these pages and you will see some of the significant milestones of the Apollo 11 Mission that landed humans on the moon!

Last year, I funded a project on Kickstarter to do a master reprint of the Apollo 11 Flight Plan. They only had a poorly scanned copy to start from. They digitized, cleaned, sharpened, and printed on a sturdy archive grade paper. They did NOT correct the 11 typos (or some other very small number) that they found, since they were in the original.

Deke Slayton was one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts who, due to a health concern, did not fly in that part of the program, but became the first Chief of the Astronaut Office - in charge of selection who goes on each mission. Ultimately he did go to space after the Apollo program was done. Chris Kraft literally wrote the book on the Flight Director role and was key to the success of the whole program.