The First Men on the Moon The Story of Apollo 11 /
On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth. One month later, President John F. Kennedy challenged the American nation to land a man on the Moon before the decade was out. On 16 July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin set off in Apollo 11 to attempt this...
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New York, NY :
Praxis,
2007.
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| Σειρά: | Springer Praxis Books
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Part I. The decision to go the Moon
- The Apollo spacecraft
- CSM
- LM
- The Saturn V launch vehicle
- Ground support
- Mission Control
- MSFN
- Precursor missions
- Gemini
- Apollo 8
- Apollo 9
- Apollo 10
- Selecting a landing site
- Apollo operational constraints
- Lunar Orbiter reconnaissance
- Surveyor surface investigation
- The mascon issue
- Site shortlist
- Part II. The men of Apollo 11
- The crew rotation system
- Neil Armstrong
- Buzz Aldrin
- Michael Collins
- Training
- Simulators
- Geology training
- Surface experiments
- Preparations
- Stacking
- The crawler
- Suiting up
- Witnesses
- The ticking clock
- Setting off
- Ascent
- Activities in parking orbit
- Translunar injection
- Through the radiation belts
- Coasting
- TD and E
- Coasting in passive thermal roll
- Navigational checks
- Crossing the neutral point
- Arrival
- Behind the Moon
- Lunar orbit insertion
- Circularisation
- Viewing the landing site
- Preparations
- Separation
- Descent
- Descent orbit insertion
- Initiation of powered descent
- Touchdown
- Tranquillity Base
- Post-landing activities
- EVA preparations
- On the ladder
- ‘One small step’
- The flag ceremony
- Collecting rocks
- Ingress, sleep and preparations to leave
- Coming home
- Liftoff and rendezvous
- TEI
- In-flight press conference
- Entry, splashdown, recovery, BIG suits and quarantine trailer
- Home
- Part III. The lunar samples
- Follow-on missions
- The next two
- The lunar field geologists
- Budget cuts and lost opportunities
- Life after Apollo 11
- Reflections.
