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 ...LIGHT International, 3/ ]uly 1969 185
The Apollo 11 mission, from the time that assembly
of the spacecraft began until the take-off from the
Moon's surface, was described in "Flight" last week.
This second report details the journey home. ...
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 ...LIGHT international, 31 July (969
"We have
ignition"
PETER MASEFIELD watches
the Apollo 11 launch
j»s AN HISTORIC SPECTACLE, comfortably viewed, the colour
M\ television camera's rendering of the Apollo 11 launch
* m was undoubtedly unbeatable. But for dramatic atmos
phere and...
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 ...20 FLIGHT International. 7 August 1969
Tranquillity Base, Moon, July 21. Edwin Aldrin inspects one of
the landing legs of the Apollo 11 lunar module. The aluminium
foil covering the leg and the landing "footpad" is to prevent an
excessive temperature-rise due to direct solar heating. The
surface has the texture of damp sa...
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 ...to Europe will be relayed from Jamesburg, USA, via
the Pacific Intelsat 3 to Japan, and retransmitted from there
to the Indian Ocean Intelsat 3 for relay to the new Goonhilly
station in Cornwall.
APOLLO 11 FUELLING BEGINS
Steady but high-pressure progress continues with plans for the
Apollo 11 flight, scheduled for launch on July 16. On June 18
the loading of fuel into the Saturn V launch v...
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 ...50 FLIGHT International, 24 July 1969
Journey to the Moon
THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE of Apollo 11 can be stated more shortly than that of any other American manned space flight. It is simply. "To perform a manned lunar land
ing and return," and was defined by President Kennedy in his
s...
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PLANS
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FOR
LANDING
FLIGHT International, 12 June 1969
THE flight plans for the Apollo 11 Moon-landing mission were recently detailed by NASA.
The prime flight crew will be Neil A. Armstrong (space
craft commander), Edwin E. Aldrin (lunar-module pilot) and
Michael Collins (com...
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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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 ...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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 ... 16, scheduled for launch next Sunday, April 16, is no
exception. The landing site, named Descartes after a
nearby crater, is in a volcanic highland region, 7,400ft,
2,255m higher than the site of Apollo 11.
Three 7hr extra-vehicular excursions are planned during
the 73hr stay on the Moon (compared with 18-33hr [20hr
planned] for Apollo 15 during a surface stay of 70hr).
The planned total t...
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 ...ternational. 17 Jul/ 1969
Three men to the Moon
Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins were selected from 52 astronauts currently on
NASA's active list. Nine further Apollo flights after Apollo 11 will give about 60 per cent of the
astronauts the opportunity to go to the Moon—and some of these will be ambitious flights indeed.
But there can only be one "first flight"
N o PEVVER THA...
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PLANS FOR
MOON LANDING
FLIGHT International, IZ June (969
THE flight plans for the Apollo 11 Moon-landing mission were recently detailed by NASA.
The prime flight crew will be Neil A. Armstrong (space
craft commander), Edwin E. Aldrin (lunar-module pilot) and
Michael Collins (com...
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 ...ocking with the command module will
take place at 2032 BST. The voyage will end with splashdown
at about 1800 BST on Thursday, July 24.
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Below, the significant events of the Apollo 11 flight, which is scheduled
for launch on July 16, are illustrated in this drawing, which is not
to scale; the distance between the Earth and Moon has been con
siderably reduced in proport...
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 ...nd module will
take place at 2032 BST. The voyage will end with splashdown
at about 1800 BST on Thursday, July 24.
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below, the significant events of the Apollo 11 flight, which is scheduled
for launch on July 16, are illustrated in this drawing, which is not
to scale; the distance between the Earth and Moon has been con
siderably reduced in proport...
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 ...an (who will fly the
lunar module clown to 48,000ft above the Moon's surface) was
the 5 n.m. by 3 n.m. site in the Sea of Tranquility which is
centred on the preferred landing site for next July's Apollo 11
Moon-landing flight. The pictures used were those transmitted
by the American spacecraft Surveyor 5. which soft-landed on
the Moon on September 11, 1967, and returned 11,000
photographs....
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 ...8 FLIGHT International, 16 January 1969
WORLD E W S
Lunar Landing Crew Named
The crew for the Apollo 11 Moon-
landing mission was named in Washing
ton last Friday, January 9. The three
astronauts will be Neil A. Armstrong,
commander of the Apollo 9 spacecraft;
Lt Col Michael Collins, USAF,...
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 ... T—3min lOsee the
automatic firing sequence was initiated. The ignition sequence,
starting at T—8.9sec, was followed by "the all engines running"
signal at T—2sec.
At 0932 local time and 1432BST, Apollo 11 lifted from
the launch pad with impressive noise and deliberation. The
first manned-landing flight to the Moon had begun. A 600ft
pencil of flame denoted over 3,000 tons of thrust at work...
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 ...ms and to conduct further
scientific exploration of the Moon and near-Moon space." It
had been widely surmised that the real purpose of the flight
was to pre-empt one of the main objectives of the Apollo 11
Moon-landing mission: to soft-land on the Moon and then
return with a sample of soil.
Luna 15 passed behind the Moon at 1048 BST on July 17
after an unusually long transit time of 102hr ...
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 ...endezvous and Moon landing
was possible. The same will be true of the immediately
succeeding flights. So it is the engineering debriefing that is
crucial. And on this there can be no two opinions. Apollo 11,
stripped of all the awed superlatives surrounding man's first
walk on another world, was an outstanding engineering
success. Dr Robert Gilruth, Director of the Manned Space
craft Centre...
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 ...een no evidence of gold,
silver or platinum. By contrast the scarcity of low-melting-point
elements, such as lead, bismuth, sodium and potassium, is
noteworthy.
A more thorough examination of the Apollo 11 rocks is
still under way by 140 scientists in eight countries, and the
results of these will be published later this year.
More recently, some observations on the preliminary scientific
...
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 ...gine to drop the
spacecraft smoothly on to the surface at 1018 GMT. In spite
of the cautious approach, Shepard was left with a slightly
better fuel margin than the 50sec remaining to Armstrong
on Apollo 11.
To recap briefly on the events that dogged the outbound
flight literally from beginning to end: heavy cloud de
layed lift-off for 40min and this finally took place with
Shepard's heart ...
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