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Is this the only document where I can read the checklists for Apollo lunar landing? They look more sidenotes than real checklists, and they contain hundreds of acronyms; I would expect instead a "checklist book" with "acronyms appendix", but can't find it.

timeline with checklists

I see some cover pages of checklist books, but not for Lunar Module landing, and anyway all on auction on Sotheby's...

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That is the checklist. It's called the LM Timeline Book. This is the corresponding page from Apollo 13.

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Acronym lists are not typically included in NASA human spaceflight checklists. The users are expected to know the acronyms.

Full list:

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    I found a "crazy" repository with hundreds of Apollo checklists in XLS format! https://github.com/orbiternassp/NASSP/tree/Orbiter2016/Doc/Project%20Apollo%20-%20NASSP/Checklists – jumpjack Feb 22 '22 at 18:16
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    I edit your answer as to have the full list of links – jumpjack Feb 22 '22 at 18:22
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Thanks to the very useful answer from @Organic Marble, I was able to locate all the checklists (links are in his answer); here is a comparison between the 6 touchdown/stay/nostay checklists:

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Note: I think there is a typo in Apollo 14 checklist: the number in brackets usually indicates the number of identical controls to operate; sometimes they wrote "(2)", other times "(both)", but for Apollo 14 we see "(9" without closing bracket, possibly an error in copying the "(2)" from a poorly readable copy of timeline book:

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