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 ...LIGHT International, 21 November 1968 821
Spaceflight
APOLLO 8 TO ORBIT MOON
NASA announced on November 12 that the Apollo 8 mission
will be a Moon-orbiting flight, the launch to take place on
December 21. The decision was made by the Acting Admini-
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 ...LIGHT International, 3 July 1975
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Apollo service module Apollo command module
Docking unit
Soyuz orbital module
Soyuz command module
Soyuz service module
VHF-FM aerial
Soyuz docking target
Soyuz docking periscope
Apolfo dockin...
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 ...pollo 16 countdown
EACH APOLLO MISSION to date has exceeded its pre decessor in programme ambition and Apollo 16, scheduled for launch next Sunday, April 16, is no
exception. The landing site, name...
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 ...0A, depicted in this artist's impression.
c vehicle is a Saturn S-IVB; the
is not installed and the propellant
is converted into a multi-storey
laboratory. Solar cell panels provide
dtctric power and Apollo spacecraft
,ijll deliver crew members to the station
Spaceflight
APOLLO SITUATION
"All three spacecraft sections have passed unmanned flight
tests. The rest of 1968 will be devoted to testing t...
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 ...LIGHT International, 3 April 1969
One of the most dramatic views in the Apollo 9
flight was noted shortly after undocking of
the command and lunar modules on March 7,
during which day the two spacecraft elements
separated to a distance »f over 100 miles before
coming...
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 ...32 FUCHT International, 3 April 19*9
One of the most dramatic views in the Apollo 9
flight was noted shortly after undocking of
the command and lunar modules on March 7,
during which day the two spacecraft elements
separated to a distance of over 100 miles before
coming...
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 ...ORKING UP FOR APOLLO 9
Preparations are well under way for the launch of Apollo 9
on February 28. On January 3 the Saturn V launch vehicle was
moved to launch pad A (which had been repaired and serviced
only on...
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 ...ORKING UP FOR APOLLO 9
Preparations are well under way for the launch of Apollo 9
on February 28. On January 3 the Saturn V launch vehicle was
moved to launch pad A (which had been repaired and serviced
only on...
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FLIGHT International,
16 March 1967
Apollo applications payloads orbited separately by four uprated Saturn I vehicles are clustered in this version
of an early NASA space station. Elements of the station include S-IVB stage orbital work...
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 ...LIGHT International, 8 January 1970
pared with 75 per cent which comprised the Apollo 11 samples;
a difference "which may or may not be significant."
Most of the rocks, like those from Tranquillity Base, were of
igneous origin, born in the melting process caused by volcanic
...
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 ...icle is believed,
however, to be an improved version of an intermediate
range missile, and, in this respect provides further
evidence of China's ICBM development.
A lunar rover is demonstrated by Apollo 15 commander David Scott
(centre) and lunar module pilot James Irwin. Standing is command
module pilot Alfred Warden
FLIGHT International, II March 1971
APOLLO 14 ROCK REPORT
The largest r...
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the evidence of two flights), and the photographs they took of
the Fra Mauro site. The planners are quite prepared to put
off the flight until April 13, and wait for an 11° sunrise angle.
If Apollo 13 is postponed until April, the crew will also train
for a landing in the backup site 6R, in the Flamsteed Ring,
also in the Ocean of Storms. (There will be no backup site for
a March 12 la...
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 ...nternational, 30 November 1967 923
tyaceflight
Apollo 4 command module, after its flight test oi: November 9 (see o/sc ...c —--._./ pictures in
"Flight" last week, page 887), being examined by NASA officials at the Space Division of North
American...
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arm-and-claw device and an alpha
pattering instrument to dig and analyse
lunar soil. This is the first time both
fcese instruments have been carried
board the same spacecraft
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JMANNED APOLLO FLIGHT
second major launching of 1968 for NASA, following the
rveyor launch planned for January 7 (see this page), is to be
|e flight of an unmanned Apollo spacecraft, to be put into
ith orbit ...
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 ...elow them an
attitude indicator. Right, interior of the ascent stage, looking aft. At the top is the docking
and entry hatch used by astronauts for internal access to the command module.
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APOLLO 9 LAUNCHED
WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN America's heaviest-ever week for space activity was downgraded by the postpone ment of the Apollo 9 flight from Friday, February 28
to Monday, March 3. The wee...
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spectacle—the noise and colour as the 3.000-ton rocket, trailing
a 700ft flame, pulled away from Launch Complex 39 -was a
reassuring echo of the previous four Saturn V flights.
At first sight the Apollo 12 operation is a repeat of Apollo
II. with the target site in the Ocean of Storms instead of the
Sea of Tranquillity. In fact a very great deal of work has taken
place since last July in re...
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 ...ls, with below them an
attitude indicator. Right, interior of the ascent stage, looking aft. At the top is the docking
and entry hatch used by astronauts for internal access to the command module.
APOLLO 9 LAUNCHED
WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN America's heaviest-ever week for space activity was downgraded by the postpone ment of the Apollo 9 flight from Friday, February 28
to Monday, March 3. The wee...
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US-USSR joint
mission detailed
J UNE 14, 1975. This may well be the date on which an American Apollo spacecraft is launched to begin a joint mission in Earth orbit with spacecraft of the
Soviet Union.
This possible date is just one of a surprising number
of details released last week by the...
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 ...32 FLIGHT International, 5 August (971
A SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOUR
FOR THE ACADEMIC, the fact that the Apollo 15 lift-off was -008sec late might have marred his appreciation. Nasa was content to report a text-book launch pre
cisely on schedule at 1334GMT, July 26. The weather was
described as being n...
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 ...CPHERSON*
M AN'S FIRST FLIGHT to the Moon was at Christmas 1968. His last visit, for the foreseeable future at least, will be around Christmas 1972. The last men on the
Moon, as far as the American Apollo team is concerned,
were named by Nasa five days after Endeavour's splash
down.
In days of talks with Nasa chiefs I found no alarm that
this final Apollo 17 mission, due in December, 1972, w...
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