Don Eyles
Don Eyles (CAS’66) of Boston, Mass., published Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memoir (Fort Point Press, 2018). “It is the story of the years immediately following my graduation from the College of Liberal Arts, when I worked at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory on the guidance system for the Apollo spacecraft that flew to the moon,” he writes. “I created software for the onboard guidance computer of the Lunar Module, and worked directly with the astronauts who would use the software. The book combines plain-English technical explanations with descriptions of important places, people, and events against a backdrop of the turbulent 1960s and early 1970s. During Apollo 14, I devised a solution to a problem that could have prevented Alan Shepard’s landing on the moon. For that, I was written up inRolling Stone (March 18, 1971), and I believe there was also a small piece about it inBostonia.” Learn more about Don’s book at sunburstandluminary.com.
From the Summer 2018 issue.