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Apollo 17

Robert Godwin, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | The NASA mission reports | 2009

Content : 1. Summary -- 2. Introduction -- 3. Trajectory -- 4. Lunar surface science -- 5. Inflight science and photography -- 6. Medical experiments and inflight demonstrations -- 7. Command and service module -- 8. Lunar module performance -- [...]

Surveyor : lunar exploration program

Robert Godwin, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | The NASA mission reports | 2006

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[...]

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[...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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[...]

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[...]