How Apollo Flew to the Moon

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Woods, W. David (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Praxis, 2008.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books, Space Exploration
• Subjects: Physics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Space sciences.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

Out of the technological battlefield of World War II came a team of gifted German engineers and designers who developed the vengeance weapon, the V-2, which evolved into the peaceful, powerful Saturn V rocket to take men to the Moon. David Woods tells the exciting story, starting from America’s post...

Table of Contents:

• Apollo: an extraordinary adventure
• The Apollo flights: a brief history
• Launch: a fiery departure
• Earth orbit and TLI
• Retrieving the lander
• Navigating to the Moon
• Coasting to the Moon
• Entering lunar orbit: the LOI manoeuvre
• Preparations for landing
• Next stop: the Moon
• Orbital sojourn: looking at the Moon
• Rendezvous and docking
• Heading for home
• Re-entry
• Epilogue.