Introduction Chapter 1: A Moment in Time -JFK and the Politics of Space in the First 100 Days -Soviet Challenge/American Response -Reconsidering the Decision to Go to the Moon -The Concept of the Visionary President? -Belief in Popular Support for Apollo Chapter 2: Technological Virtuosity -The American Infatuation with All Things Technological -A Mixed Record? -An Exceptionally Human Tragedy -The Triumph of Technological Virtuosity Chapter 3: Heroes in a Vacuum -Creation of an Image -The Astronaut as "Everyman" -The Mystique of the Space Suit -Astronaut Masculinity and the Crisis of Post-Modern Society -Astronauts as Generational Representations Chapter 4: "Ex Luna, Scientia" -Interpreting Apollo Science -Building Support for Apollo Lunar Science -Pre-Apollo Knowledge of the Moon -Learning More about the Moon -Scientific Results from Apollo -Incorporation of Apollo Lunar Science into the Body of Knowledge -Remystification of the Moon Chapter 5: Vicarious Exploration and Apollo Imagery -Photography and the Nature of Exploration -NASA and Astronaut Photography -Six Images from Apollo --Apollo/Saturn V Launch --Astronaut and the American Flag on the Lunar Surface --Buzz Aldrin Full Image --Bootprint on the Moon --Earthrise --The Whole Earth Chapter 6: Managing the Unmanageable -Apollo, Governmental Activism, and the Positive Liberal State -James E. Webb and Space Age America -Experimenting with Knowledge: NASA's Sustaining University Program -Exporting "Space Age Management" -Space Age Management and Its Legacy Chapter 7: Nationalism, Jingoism, and the Memory of Apollo -Apollo As Mythic Event -A Typology for the Prestige Issue in Apollo -Prestige on the International Stage -Pride at the National Level -Apollo and the Idea of Progress -The Problem of Jingoism -Post-Colonialism and the Moon Landings Chapter 8: Abandoned in Place -Disposing of the Relics of Apollo -Launch Complexes 39a and 39b -Vertical/Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) -Mission Control Center (MCC) -Lunar Landing Research Facility (LLRF) -Apollo Spacecraft -Apollo Landing Sites on the Moon -Interpreting the Material Culture of Apollo Chapter 9: Lament for Apollo -The Origins of Filk -"Hope Eyrie": An Anthem for Apollo -Filk as Lament for Apollo -Apollo and the Grand Design Chapter 10: Denying the Apollo Moon Landings -America and the Cult of Conspiracy -The Rise of Moon Landing Denials -Concocting a Lasting Conspiracy Thesis -"Evidence" Offered by Moon Landing Deniers -Broadcasting the Moon Hoax Conspiracy in the Age of the Internet -The Place of the Media -The Moon Landing Denials at Forty -Moon Landing Deniers and the Twin Features of Modern Society Epilogue: Versions of Reality -Apollo As Triumph -Criticism of Apollo from the Political Left as Wasteful Government Spending -Criticism of Apollo from the Political Right -Denials of the Apollo Moon Landings Notes.