AAPOLLO XI / 11 PREFLIGHT AND FLIGHT: HISTORICAL ANALYSIS, DRAWINGS & PHOTOGRAPHS

Download or read book AAPOLLO XI / 11 PREFLIGHT AND FLIGHT: HISTORICAL ANALYSIS, DRAWINGS & PHOTOGRAPHS written by and published by Jeffrey Frank Jones. This book was released on with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description Apollo 11 was the first mission in which humans walked on the lunar surface and returned to Earth. On 20 July 1969 two astronauts (Apollo 11 Commander Neil A. Armstrong and LM pilot Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr.) landed in Mare Tranquilitatis (the Sea of Tranquility) on the Moon in the Lunar Module (LM) while the Command and Service Module (CSM) (with CM pilot Michael Collins) continued in lunar orbit. During their stay on the Moon, the astronauts set up scientific experiments, took photographs, and collected lunar samples. The LM took off from the Moon on 21 July and the astronauts returned to Earth on 24 July. Apollo Goals "That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong The national effort that enabled Astronaut Neil Armstrong to speak those words as he stepped onto the lunar surface, fulfilled a dream as old as humanity. But Project Apollo's goals went beyond landing Americans on the Moon and returning them safely to Earth: • To establish the technology to meet other national interests in space. • To achieve preeminence in space for the United States. • To carry out a program of scientific exploration of the Moon. • To develop man's capability to work in the lunar environment. The Apollo Spacecraft Apollo was a three-part spacecraft: the command module (CM), the crew's quarters and flight control section; the service module (SM) for the propulsion and spacecraft support systems (when together, the two modules are called CSM); and the lunar module (LM), to take two of the crew to the lunar surface, support them on the Moon, and return them to the CSM in lunar orbit. The flight mode, lunar orbit rendezvous, was selected in 1962. The boosters for the program were the Saturn IB for Earth orbit flights and the Saturn V for lunar flights. CONTENT By CHAPTER: 1. TEXT - APOLLO PROGRAM OVERVIEW, MISSION SUMMARIES AND ASTRONAUT BIOGRAPHIES. 2. TEXT - APOLLO 11 MISSION SPECIFIC 3. SPACECRAFT DRAWINGS 4. MISSION PATCHES 5. PHOTOGRAPHS - PREFLIGHT MISSION SPECIFIC 6. PHOTOGRAPHS - FLIGHT MISSION SPECIFIC