...eturn to Earth without firing the engine.
Tentative schedules for the remainder of the Apollo flights
are now beginning to harden following the success of the
Apollo 7 mission. They are as follows: —
Apollo 9 will be an Earth-orbital mission in February 1969
to test the complete Apollo spacecraft, including the LM. The
crew will be James McDivitt (commander), David Scott (com-
mand module) and Rus...
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Soyuz command module
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...Apollo 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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...International. 30 May 1968 829
Orbital space station concept developed
McDonnell Douglas Corp missile and
Lee systems division in a study for
0A, depicted in this artist's impression.
c vehicle is a S...
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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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...d to fly
Apollo 8 around the Moon, rather than to tApollo 9, while Apollo 9 became
Apollo 8. Thus Armstrong, not Conrad, became the first
tiuzz Aldrin would have been the first man on the Moon,
according to initial NASA plans for the Apollo 1 I
Mo...
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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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...420
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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...FLIGHT 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 Tranquillit...
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...SECOND CHINESE SATELLITE LAUNCHED
The North American Air Defence Command reported last
week that China has successfully launched a second
satellite from a space facility at Shuang-Cheng-Tzu in
cen...
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...FLIGHT International, 18 December 1969 967
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, a...
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...International, 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 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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...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.
m?mwKi i
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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...n
during the most suitable lighting conditions.
Apollo 12. planned as a 10-day (244.7hr) mission, represents
a considerable stretch over that of the 8-day (I95.3hr) flight
of Apollo 1 I (although Apollo 9, the full-scale test flight
around the Moon with the lunar module last March, ran to
The all-Navy crew of Apollo 12: left to right,
Charles Conrad, commander; Richard Gordon,
command-modu...
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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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...278
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
Sovie...
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