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As a Smoke Jumper, Roosa parachuted into at least four active fires in Oregon and California during the 1953 fire season.
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There were some people who wondered why America’s first man in space Alan Shepard, at age forty-seven, having acquired fame, wealth, and status as an American hero, would risk his life to go to the moon.
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NASA officials used only 12 words to list the primary objectives of Apollo 11:
1-Perform a manned lunar landing and return.
2-Perform selenological inspection and sampling.
Nasa Admin during Apollo 11 – Thomas O. Paine
Flight Directors John Hodge and Gene Kranz
Plaque on the Lunar Module descent stage of Apollo 11
Antipode illustration
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As the lunar module approached, Young saw it through his sextant at a distance of 259 kilometers. Stafford and Cernan got a radar lock on the command module shortly after the insertion burn and watched with interest as the instrument measured the dwindling gap between the vehicles and demonstrated the theories of orbital mechanics in actual practice. Cernan especially liked the steady communications that kept both crews aware of what was happening.
Ascent stage of Apollo 10 LM viewed from CM.
Apollo 10 re-docking plan
CM and LM pre-jettison attitude
