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 ...fLIGHT 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
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 ...fLIGHT International, 3 July 1975
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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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 ...is is perhaps the key sentence in a recent news feature
received from Cape Kennedy, summing-up the Apollo pro-
gramme situation in mid-May 1968. The writer comments that,
for the first time since the Apollo 1 disaster 15 months ago,
America's Apollo Moon project is back on the track and taking
a cautious new aim at a manned lunar landing next year.
The programme includes two three-man flights late...
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 ...ne further landings on the Moon.
Giving this news at a USAF Association meeting at Houston,
Texas, on March 21, the NASA Administrator Or Thomas O.
Paine said that the three missions following the Apollo 11
flight would be similar to that of the first Moon landing, but
that experiments would be widened in scope. The first four
landings—Apollos 11, 12, 13 and 14—would carry local experi
ment...
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 ...e further landings on the Moon.
Giving 'this news at a USAF Association meeting at Houston,
Texas, on March 21, the NASA Administrator Dr Thomas O.
Paine said that the three missions following the Apollo 11
flight would be similar to that of the first Moon landing, but
•that experiments would be widened in scope. The first four
landings—Apollos 11, 12, 13 and 14—would carry local experi
men...
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 ...POLLO ANNIVERSARY
ission in 1968. According to NASA tradition, this would
ave made him the Apollo 12 commander. The back-up
ommander oj Apollo 8 was Pete Conrad, who would have
been commander <>/ Apollo 11. When it was decided to fly
Apollo 8 around the Moon, rather than to t |
 ...ble.
On completion of the tests the astronauts will abandon the
lunar module in orbit and return to Earth in the command
module. A substantial success with Apollo 9 is needed to clear
the way for Apollo 10, the dress-rehersal flight to the Moon
scheduled for next May, The purpose of this flight will be to
detach the lunar module in orbit around the Moon, and fly
two astronauts to within 50,...
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 ...ble.
On completion of the tests the astronauts will abandon the
lunar module in orbit and return to Earth in the command
module. A substantial success with Apollo 9 is needed to clear
the way for Apollo 10, the dress-rehersal flight to the Moon
scheduled for next May. The purpose of this flight will be to
detach the lunar module in orbit around the Moon, and fly
two astronauts to within 50,...
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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 ...
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 ...APRIL 2IST, 1949 FLIGHT 445
The first Photograph to be taken of the A.W. Apollo in the air. Powered with four Mamba turboprops, it is designed to cruise at
.,, . - 305 m.p.h. at 20,000ft. .
Apollo Air...
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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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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 o...
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 ...|GHT International, 4 January 1968
kst model Surveyor lunar soft-landing
fyacecraft at Hughes Aircraft Co,
nlr City, Calif, the prime contractor,
he seventh and final Surveyor is due to
launched next ...
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 ...ue to have been flown last year, but
continuing problems forced a postponement and, in the event,
last December's brilliantly successful Apollo 8 flight took its
place. In order to qualify for the Apollo 11 manned lunar
landing next July, the LM trials involving Apollo 9 and 10
must now be reasonably trouble-free.
The Earth-orbital flight is scheduled to include extensive
performance tests ...
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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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 ...ue to have been flown last year, but
continuing problems forced a postponement and, in the event,
last December's brilliantly successful Apollo 8 flight took its
place. In order to qualify for the Apollo 11 manned lunar
landing next July, the LM trials involving Apollo 9 and 10
must now be reasonably trouble-free.
The Earth-orbital flight is scheduled to include extensive
performance tests ...
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side of the module and will be supplied by externally
mounted tanks.
If both missions take place, the Apollo spacecraft in
volved will probably be those originally intended for the
cancelled Apollo 19 and 20 Moon missions. The docking
module in each case will be carried in the neck of the
S.IVB stage of the Saturn IB launch vehicle, lunar-module
style. Total payload into orbit is expec...
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