Apollo Expeditions to the Moon
Edward Cortright
Language: English
Pages: 511
ISBN: B004XZ8366
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Presented in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the lunar landing, this new edition of an official NASA publication presents the thrilling inside story of the Apollo program. Written in direct, jargon-free language and featuring numerous illustrations, this compelling adventure features essays by engineers, administrators, and astronauts that recall the challenges associated with putting men on the moon.
Prehistoric Astronomy in the Southwest (Revised Edition)
The International Politics of Space
Moon, pictures Moon-travel methods, proposed Mueller, George E. Myers, Dale NASA, formation NASA Headquarters National Academy of Sciences National Center for Resource Recovery National Security Agency Navajo long range ramjet program Naval Research Laboratory Navigation Navy, U.S. New Orleans, La. New Orleans Saints football team New York Times Newell, Homer E. Nixon, Mrs. Richard M. Nixon, Richard M. North American Rockwell Ocean of Storms = Oceanus Procellarum O’Connor,
people directly concerned. Each chapter author was encouraged to recount his part of the story as he remembered it. We refrained from homogenizing these contributions, although we recognized that they are necessarily personalized and slightly duplicative. But they do offer the viewpoints of some of the people who made Apollo happen, and thus may provide fresh insights into that incredible project. To help develop the idea into a book, I turned to Frank Rowsome, NASA’s technical publications
eliminated. That’s not all: the same life-support system also maintained the cabin at the right pressure, provided hot and cold water, and a circulating coolant to keep all the electronic gear at the proper temperature. (In the weightless environment of space, there are no convective currents, and equipment must be cooled by means of circulating fluids.) Because astronauts’ lives depended on this system, most of the functions were provided with redundancy—and yet the entire unit was not much
rockets stuck to the photographic target on the antenna boom, as shown in the picture on page 88. The last Surveyor was landed in a highland area just north of the crater Tycho on January 9, 1968. A panoramic picture of this ejecta field taken by Surveyor VII is shown on page 91 as well as a mosaic of its surface “gardening” area. I remember walking into the control room at JPL at the moment the experimenters were attempting to free the backscatter instrument, which had hung up during
jiggle or two, indicating that experiment was off and running. TAN DUST ON SURVEYOR We found some green rocks, and some gray soil that maintained its light color even below the surface, which is not common, and we finally reached the Surveyor crater. I was surprised by its size and its hard surface. We could have landed right there, I believe now, but it would have been a scary thing at the time. The Surveyor was covered with a coating of fine dust, and it looked tan or even brown in the lunar
