Heading: (1969 - Apollo 11)
Author: [Larson, Kathleen B.]
Title: Apollo 11 : Preliminary Science Report
Place Published: Washington, DC
Publisher:National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Technology Utilization
Date Published: 1969
Description:

204 pp. NASA SP-214. Original pictorial wrappers. 

Also includes:

• Larson, Kathleen B., Eugene Shoemaker, Raymond Batson. “Appreciation of the Luna 9 Pictures.” Astronautics and Aeronautics, May 1966.

Signed on front wrapper by geologist and lunar map-maker K.[athleen] B. Larson of the U.S. Geological Survey, Arizona. Published by NASA 3 months after the Apollo 11 mission, this comprehensive report of the lunar landing begins with “Crew Observations” by Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins.  On Page 51 there is a “Preliminary map of EVA photographs and television pictures taken at the landing site” – a first rudimentary map of the 2-hour moon walk by Armstrong and Aldrin based on photos taken by the astronauts as analyzed by Raymond Batson and Kathleen Larson.

Both the map and the chapter on “Geologic Setting of Lunar Samples”, unsigned in the text, were credited to RaymondBatson and Kathleen Larson, two scientists at the U. S. Geological Survey in Arizona, by a 2001 NASA study on details of the Apollo 11 mission.  Batson and Larson had already collaborated on other reports of NASA astrogeology and would continue to do so for years, mapping planetary explorations by unmanned spacecraft. But whereas Batson, who co-authored the 1997 NASA Atlas of the Solar System, would become notable in his field as the “Pioneer of Planetary Mapping”, Larson, who often signed her name with just initials, masking her gender, has been completely forgotten.
 

Moderate wear to wrappers; good overall.