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Apollo 11 : men on the Moon

Mark Gray | [S.l.] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | 2003

The first lunar surface EVA was designed to test the ability of man to work in the lunar envieonment, collect samples for investigation on Earth, and to deploy a small number of experiments. Neil Amstrong was outside the lunar module for two hou[...]

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Apollo 8 : leaving the cradle

Mark Gray | [S.l.] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | 2003

This disc contains the complete television transmissions from the Apollo 8 spacecraft - 6 in all. Apollo 8's television camera was a 4.5 pound RCA black-and-white camera. There was no monitor or viewfinder on the camera - so framing the picture [...]

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Apollo 8 : leaving the cradle

Mark Gray | [S.l.] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | 2003

This disc contains the complete television transmissions from the Apollo 8 spacecraft - 6 in all. Apollo 8's television camera was a 4.5 pound RCA black-and-white camera. There was no monitor or viewfinder on the camera - so framing the picture [...]

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The mighty Saturns : Saturn I and IB

Mark Gray | [S.l.] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | 2003

Footage on every Saturn I launch from SA-1 through SA-10, and the Saturn IB launches from AS-201 through AS-210, most with multiple angles. Audio from Saturn launch audio in surround with intense low frequency effects.

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Project Gemini : a bold leap forward

Mark Gray | [S.l.] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | 2003

Demontrates GT-1 launch vehicle performance, launch vehicle and spacecraft structural integrity, and work in tracking and guidance network. Demontrates GT-II reentry heat protection during maximum heating reentry. Launch and onboard film which i[...]

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Apollo 11 : men on the Moon

Mark Gray | [S.l.] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | 2003

Contains the television transmissions, an onboard film with views taken of the ascent from the surface, the approach of Eagle after lunar liftoff, views from orbit and life aboard Columbia, and some bonus material of EVA and landing training.

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Apollo 8 : leaving the cradle

Mark Gray | [S.l.] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | 2003

This disc contains the complete 16 mm motion picture film exposed onboard the Apollo 8 spacecraft. In addition to footage of life aboard the spacraft, incredible views of the moon from lunar orbit were captured. The onboard film on this disc is [...]

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The mighty Saturns : Saturn I and IB

Mark Gray | [S.l.] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | 2003

This disc contains 35 separate views of the launch of AS-205, Apollo 7. Launched on October 11, 1968, Apollo 7 was the first manned launch of a Saturn vehicle. Wally Schirra, Don Eisele and Walt Cunningham spent just over 10 days in Earth orbit [...]

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The mighty Saturns : Saturn I and IB

Mark Gray | [S.l.] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | 2003

The Saturn family of launch vehicles remains one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of mankind. From the clustered Saturn I using Reddstone and Jupiter tankage to the Saturn V moon rocket, the increase in capability represented b[...]

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Project Gemini : a bold leap forward

Mark Gray | [S.l.] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | 2003

With the completion of the combined Gemini VI-A and Gemini VII missions, most of the major goals of the program had been achieved. EVA had been performed, rendezvous have been proven viable, and long duration space flights have been shown to be [...]

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The moonlandings : an eyewitness account

Reginald Turnill ; Buzz Aldrin | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | 2003

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Project Gemini : a bold leap forward

Mark Gray | [S.l.] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | 2003

Sometimes overlooked, Project Gemini was the crucible of America's space experience. Originally conceived as the "Mercury Mark II" program, the need to master rendezvous, EVA and long duration missions transformed Gemini into a bold exploration.

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Apollo 17 : the NASA mission reports

Robert Godwin, Editor ; United States, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | The NASA mission reports | 2002

It was just past midnight in the early morning hours of 7 December 1972 when the last manned Saturn V roared from the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center. Strapped into the crowded Command Module were Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module P[...]

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Apollo 9 : the NASA mission reports

Robert Godwin | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2002

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Virtual Apollo : a pictorial essay of the engineering and construction of the Apollo command and service modules : the historic spacecraft that took man on the Moon

Scott P. Sullivan | [S.l.] : Collector's Guide Pub. | 2002

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Moon lander : how we developed the Apollo Lunar Module

Thomas J. Kelly | [S.l.] : Smithsonian Institution Press | Smithsonian history of aviation and spaceflight | 2001

In 1961, only a few weeks after Alan Sheperd completed the first American suborbital flight, President John F. Kennedy announced that the United States would put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. The next year, NASA awarded the rig[...]

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Taking science to the Moon : lunar experiments and the Apollo program

Donald A. Beattie | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | 2001

How did science get aboard the Apollo rockets, and what did scientists do with the space allotted to them? "Taking science to the Moon" describes, from the perspective of NASA headquarters, the struggles that took place to include science payloa[...]

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Apollo 10 : the NASA mission reports

Robert Godwin, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | The NASA mission reports | 2000

On May 18th 1969 NASA launched the last in a series of daring test flights of the Apollo hardware. Apollo 10 would follow swiftly on the heels of the successful flight of Apollo 9. The goal was to send a second crew into space but this time with[...]

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Apollo 13 : the NASA mission reports

Robert Godwin, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | The NASA mission reports | 2000

In 1970 some considered Apollo 13 a catastrophic failure but it has since been recognised as one of NASA's truly great moments, when the spirit of daring and ingenuity came to life in the team at Mission Control as they successfully brought the [...]

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Apollo 14 : the NASA mission reports

Robert Godwin, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | The NASA mission reports | 2000

After the unfortunate accident which befell Apollo 13 the job of getting NASA back to the moon fell on the shoulders of America's oldest astronaut Alan B. Shepard. Shepard had been grounded since the flight of Freedom 7 in 1961 due to an inner [...]

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Apollo 7 : the NASA mission reports

Robert Godwin, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | The NASA mission reports | 2000

October 1968 and the United States manned space program was about to be reborn. An entirely new space vehicle awaited its pilots at Pad 34. After 21 months the three-man Apollo space capsule had undergone a transformation. Over 1300 modificatio[...]

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Apollo 8 : the NASA mission reports

Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | The NASA mission reports | 2000

On December 21st 1968 the NASA sent three men to orbit the moon. Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders were to be the first living creatures to enter deep space. It was the boldest step y[...]

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Apollo by the numbers : a statistical reference

Richard W. Orloff | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Program Office | NASA History Series | 2000

This work is a unique collection of valuable statistical information about Project Apollo. It includes a chapter (about 20 pages each) for Apollo 1 through Apollo 17. There are several data tables for each mission, plus a 50-page section with ad[...]

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Apollo in perspective : spaceflight then and now

Jonathan Allday | [S.l.] : Institute of Physics Publishing | 2000

This book takes a retrospective look at the Apollo space programme and the technology that was used to land a man on the Moon. Jonathan Allday's aims are to explain the basic physics and technology of spaceflight, and to convey the huge technolo[...]

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Computers take flight : a history of NASA's pioneering digital fly-by-wire project

J. E. Tomayko, Author | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA SP | 2000

The story of digital fly-by-wire is a story of people, of successes, and of overcoming enormous obstacles and problems. The fundamental concept is relatively simple, but the realization of the concept in hardware and software safe enough for hum[...]

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Apollo 12 : the NASA mission report

Robert Godwin, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 1999

When the crew of Apollo 11 returned to Earth in July 1969, they brought with them a wealth of new information about the moon. Now astronauts Charles (Pete) Conrad, Alan Bean and Richard Gordon would return to the moon and build on that knowledge[...]

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Full moon

Michael Light | [S.l.] : Jonathan Cape | 1999

"Full moon" is a photographic journey to the Moon and back, drawn from NASA's 32000 pictures from the Apollo missions. For the first time NASA has allowed 900 of the "master" negatives and transparencies to be taken offsite for electronic scanni[...]

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Managing the Moon program : lessons learned from Project Apollo : proceedings of an oral history workshop conducted July 21, 1989

[S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Program Office | Monographs in Aerospace History | 1999

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Powering Apollo : James E. Webb of NASA

W. Henry Lambright | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 1995

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Selling outer space : Kennedy, the media, and funding for Project Apollo, 1961-1963 /

James Lee Kauffman, Author | [S.l.] : University of Alabama Press | Studies in rhetoric and communication | 1994

This text examines the impact of the Kennedy administration's depiction of Project Apollo as a great frontier adventure that continues to affect American space policy three decades later. It explores how the media interacted with NASA to promot[...]

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