Robert Godwin is the author and editor of dozens of books about space flight and science fiction. He produced the first ever virtual reality panoramas of the Apollo lunar surface photography and the first multi-camera move of the Apollo 11 Moonwalk. He was the Space Curator at the Canadian Air Space Museum in Toronto and he co-produced the movie 2001: The Science of Futures Past.

"Reads like a novel. Replete with new discoveries. This book is seminal." -- BIS Spaceflight May 2019

Author Rob Godwin's surprising discoveries during his research for Manned Lunar Landings are covered in this article from MIT. Read the full article, below.

“This is another of the semi-academic books published by Apogee. It follows the story of the evolution of the Lunar Orbital Rendezvous (LOR) technique that enabled Apollo 11 to land on the Moon in July 1969. The author, a serial writer of spaceflight related books, takes the story from the early ideas and techniques proposed by pioneers like Tsiolkovsky, Oberth, Goddard and von Braun through the post-war theoretical work of the British Interplanetary Society with publications by Harry Ross and Ralph Smith. But the real unsung heroes of this story of MALLAR dating back to the 1950s are the engineers of the Chance Vought Company from Texas. Better known as an aerospace company producing such famous fighters as the F-8 Crusader, by 1959 under the guidance of a Conrad Lau they were pursuing the idea of the lunar orbital rendezvous technique as the best way to accomplish a manned lunar landing and return mission. This is an excellent condensed book, only 130 odd pages long, which sheds light on the little known influence of Chance Vought on the Apollo missions, and is well worth the read...” -- John Becklake, RAeS Aerospace Magazine, December 2020