Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions, Volume 10National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Division, 1989 - 415 pages When the crew of Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969, Americans hailed the successful completion of the most complex technological undertaking of the 20th century: landing humans on the moon and returning them safely to earth. This document records the engineering and scientific accomplishments of the people who made lunar exploration possible. It shows how scientists and engineers worked out their differences and conducted a program that was a major contribution to science as well as a stunning engineering accomplishment. |
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Page 349 - I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
Page 200 - ... QUESTIONS In order to make the case for manned planetary exploration, it is essential, in fact, absolutely essential, to ask the questions in the proper way. First of all, what's it all about? What are we after? I think the answer to these fundamental questions has been given, and given quite well, by the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences and by the Lunar and Planetary Missions Board of NASA. Most scientists agree that there are three fundamental problems: l) to understand...
Page 141 - There doesn't appear to be too much of a general color at all. However, it looks as though some of the rocks and boulders, of which there are quite a few in the near area, it looks as though they're going to have some interesting colors to them.
Page 37 - THE HISTORY OR EVOLUTIONARY SEQUENCE OF EVENTS BY WHICH THE MOON HAS ARRIVED AT ITS PRESENT CONFIGURATION NOTE: FROM A MEETING SPONSORED BY THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, SPACE SCIENCES BOARD.
Page 301 - ... were experienced with the abort system in the Lunar Module landing radar after separation from the Command Module, but the spacecraft was nonetheless brought to a safe touchdown on February 5. The first lunar EVA lasted four hours and 44 minutes, during which an ALSEP package was deployed in Anon: The Apollo 13 Accident. Hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, US House of Representatives. US Government Printing Office (Washington, DC), June 16, 1970.
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Page 6 - From a scientific standpoint, there seems little room for dissent that man's participation in the exploration of the moon and planets will be essential, if and when it becomes technologically feasible to include him.
Page 334 - ... cratered highlands, and (3) major craters. The major objective in all of these areas would be to test the geologic interpretations based on the orbiter data and to obtain the detailed data on composition and structure that can only be obtained by landing on the surface . The following equipment would be required for this phase of lunar exploration. 1 . Automatic position recording systems . These are required for tracking and recording movements of the astronaut, roving vehicle, and cameras....
Page 141 - We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape, angularity, granularity, about every variety of rock you could find. The colors — well, it varies pretty much depending on how you're looking relative to the zerophase point.
Page 58 - ... will be essential. They should be able to relate quickly new ideas, and be good at orderof-magnitude calculations. Training should start now and last for at least four or five years. They should go through astronaut training for part of each year to become familiar with problems of space flight. It is hoped that this would not involve too large a fraction of their time, since emphasis should be on their development as scientists.