Posted on July 27, 2016
Even a perfect reentry would subject the Apollo 8 command module to extreme stress. With Gemini, the capsule re-entered from Earth orbit, but Apollo 8 would re-enter at approximated 25,000 miles per hour. The forces of heat and deceleration would b...
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Posted on March 5, 2015
Many historians agree, the U.S. took its first step toward the moon in the spring of 1957, four years before President Kennedy declared the national goal of landing a man on the Moon, and returning him safely to the Earth. While still preparing for t...
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Posted on March 12, 2015
Just as launch complex 34 dwarfed its predecessors, Saturn’s checkout represented a new magnitude in launch operations. The Saturn C-1 stood three times higher, required six times more fuel, and produced ten times more thrust than the Jupiter. Its si...
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Posted on March 18, 2015
No previous maiden launch had gone flawlessly, and the Saturn C-1 was considerably more complicated than any rocket launched thus far. Launch Operations Directorate officials gave the rocket a 75% chance of getting off the ground, and a 30% chance of...
To assemble the large Saturns, NASA needed a plant, preferably one already built. The Michoud facility (above), close to New Orleans, suited the requirements
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Modules of the Apollo spacecraft were tested in Florida in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building. Above, NASA officials Walt Williams, Merritt Preston, Kurt Debus, Brainerd Holmes, and Wernher von Braun
Maiden launch of the Apollo program- Saturn SA-1 from Cape Canaveral, 27 October 1961
First Saturn Launch
Liftoff of Saturn I. Note the long cable mast falling away on the right
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Abe Silverstein, NASA’s Director of Space Flight Development, is shown touring a rocket engine facility
1-Launch Complex 34, blockhouse interior
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Posted on May 14, 2015
…From the information they gathered on the existing technical problems, Disher and Tischler concluded that prospects were only one in ten that Apollo would land on the moon before the end of the decade….
Full-scale model of the command module, above- the strake aerodynamic devices may be seen at either side of the spacecraft just above the aft heatshield
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On 16 November 1963 in Cape Canaveral’s Blockhouse 37, NASA’s new manned space flight chief George Mueller
Communications with the moon as the earth turned. Astronauts on the moon’s surface also could talk to one another
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Posted on May 21, 2015
Max Faget’s position was that considering the difficulty of the job, if each mission was successful half the time, it would be well worth the effort. But Gilruth thought that was too low. He want a 90% mission success ratio and a 99% ratio for Ast...
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The cabin section (or primary structure) of the CM is assembled at North American in 1965
The CM probe would slip into the LM’s dish-shaped drogue, and 12 latches on the docking ring would engage, to lock the spacecraft together, airtight
Full-scale model of the service module, resting on a mockup of a spacecraft-lunar module adapter, with panels off to reveal part of the internal arrangement
Jettison of the launch escape system (right) after successful launch, also pulls away the boost protective cover that protects the windows from flame and soot
On the drawing of the launch escape system at upper right, the canard aerodynamic devices are near the top of the escape tower
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Posted on June 11, 2015
Since the lunar module would fly only in space (earth orbit and lunar vicinity), the designers could ignore the aerodynamic streamlining demanded by earth’s atmosphere and build the first true manned spacecraft, designed solely for operating in the s...
6-NASA engineers in 1964 decided that astronauts could stand in the lunar module cabin during the trip to the lunar surface. Note triangular windows
7-Proposed sleeping positions for astronauts on the moon
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4-The drawing of the stage indicates positions of components
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2-Administrator James Webb examines models of the lunar and command modules in docked position
1-Lunar module generations from 1962 (above left; the vehicle originally proposed by Grumman) to 1969
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Posted on June 17, 2015
The Lunar Lander originally had two docking hatches, one at the top center of the cabin and another in the forward position, or nose, of the vehicle, with a tunnel in each location to permit astronauts to crawl from one pressurized vehicle to the oth...
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2-he addition of a ladder on a landing gear leg made the task much easier
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Posted on July 2, 2015
At various stages of lunar module design, mockup reviews were conducted to demonstrate progress and identify weaknesses. These inspections were formal occasions, with a board composed of NASA and contractor officials and presided over by a chairman f...
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Posted on July 9, 2015
The key to high-energy stages was to use liquid hydrogen as the fuel. Liquid hydrogen fuel appealed to rocket designers because of its high specific impulse, which is a basic measure of rocket performance. Specific Impulse is the impulse delivered p...
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Posted on July 23, 2015
Toward the end of January 1967, it was revealed that Lunar Module 1 would not reach the Cape in February, as expected. This meant, the moon landing might be delayed because the lander was not ready. But the mission planners could not wait for the Apo...
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Posted on August 20, 2015
Apollo Saturn 201 employed the Saturn IB launch vehicle, which was the up-rated version of the Saturn I rocket flown in ten earlier Saturn-Apollo missions. It featured an upgrade of the first stage engines to increase thrust from 1,500,000 lb-ft of ...
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Apollo-Saturn 201 mission – launch, recovery
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Posted on November 12, 2015
After the uncertain days of February 1967, NASA officials began to realize that a recovery from the tragedy was under way. Through hard work and problem solving, morale of Nasa personnel started to improve…
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Posted on November 19, 2015
Chief Designer Mishin proposed a two-launch “stopover” scenario for the piloted flight to the moon. This was similar to one of NASA’s earth orbit rendezvous modes to reach the moon. The gist of the plan was, the UR-500K would insert the 7K-L1 into or...
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Posted on December 3, 2015
With the success of Kosmos 146 and in spite of the failures of the first three 7K-Ok’s it was now time to plan for a Soyuz manned mission. The planned involved the launch and docking of two piloted Soyuzes. Soyuz 7K-OK production model number 4 was a...
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Posted on December 10, 2015
“I was the last one to see him alive and I told him ‘See you soon!’” Yuri Gagarin, recalls bidding farewell to his friend Kamarov in Soyuz 1.
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Posted on January 28, 2016
The structural efficiency of the S-II stage, in terms of the weight and pressures taken by its extra-thin walls, was comparable only to the capacity of one of nature’s most refined examples of structural efficiency, the egg.
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Posted on February 4, 2016
“The S-II stage was a nightmare the minute it was conceived, and it only got worse from there. During the course of its creation, it would grind up people and careers the way the transcontinental railway devoured laborers. Though the methods and mat...
5-Test firing of a Saturn V second stage rocket S-II
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Posted on February 11, 2016
“…our building’s shaking here. Our building’s shaking! Oh it’s terrific, the building’s shaking! This big blast window is shaking! We’re holding it with our hands! Look at that rocket go into the clouds at 3000 feet!…you can see it…you can see it…oh ...
6-A crescent Earth, as photographed from Apollo 4
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4-Apollo 4 unmanned mission lifts off from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center
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Posted on February 18, 2016
“The fire-in-the-hole abort was the most critical test of the mission and one we had to accomplish successfully prior to a manned mission.” Gene Kranz – Flight Director Apollo 5
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Posted on February 25, 2016
The success of Apollo 4 gave good reason to believe that the Saturn V could be trusted to propel men into space. But NASA pushed on with its plans for a second unmanned booster flight, primarily to give the Pad 39 launch team another rehearsal before...
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Posted on March 3, 2016
When we left the Soviet Union they had somewhat successfully landed a probe on Venus and they had completed the automatic docking of two Soyuz 7K-OK spacecrafts. However they did not reach their goal of a circumlunar flight in time for the 50th anni...
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Posted on March 16, 2016
The first attempt for a Zond 4 follow-up launched on April 22. It failed when the Launch Escape System sent an erroneous abort command at T+260 seconds and shut down the Proton booster’s second stage. The escape rocket fired and pulled the descent m...
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Posted on March 23, 2016
Had it not been for the fact that Eisele damaged his shoulder during a zero-G training flight aboard a KC-135 aircraft just before Christmas 1965, he might have been in the senior pilot’s seat aboard Apollo 1, instead of Ed White.
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1- Schirra as the Commander of Apollo 7 crew
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Posted on March 30, 2016
Command Service Module-101 started through the manufacturing cycle early in 1966. By July, it had been formed, wired, fitted with subsystems, and made ready for testing. After the Apollo 1 fire in January 1967, changes had to be made, mainly in the w...
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2-Schirra, Eisele, and Cunningham (left to right) practice climbing out of the spacecraft into a life raft, to perfect recovery procedures
1-Saturn 205’s first stage rests on the pedestal at Launch Complex 34 before mating with other stages for launch
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Posted on April 6, 2016
SCHIRRA: You’ve added two burns to this flight schedule, and you’ve added a urine water dump; and we have a new vehicle up here, and I can tell you at this point TV will be delayed without any further discussion until after the rendezvous.
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Tagged:Apollo 1, Apollo 7, Chysler, Commandservice Module, Csm, Csm 101, Donn Eisele, Douglas Aircraft, Downey, Florida, Gemini, Gene Kranz, Gerald Griffin, Glynn Lunney, Grumman, Houston, Huntsville, Iva, John Hodge, John Young, Lm, Marshall Space Flight Center, Mercury, Mississippi Test, North American Rockwell, S Ib, S Ii, S Ivb, Satuen Ib, Saturn V, T 38, Tom Stafford, Wally Schirra, Walter Cunningham
Posted on April 13, 2016
CAPCOM Number 1 (Deke Slayton): Okay. I think you ought to clearly understand there is absolutely no experience at all with landing without the helmet on.
SCHIRRA: And there no experience with the helmet either on that one.
CAPCOM: That one we’ve g...
10-The Apollo 7 Command Module as exhibited at The Frontiers of Flight Museum
9-Barbara Eden, Bob Hope, the Apollo 7 astronauts, and Paul Haney (voice of Mission Control) on The Bob Hope Show (November 6, 1968)
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6-The crew is welcomed aboard the USS Essex
5-A crewmember being hoisted into the recovery helicopter
3U-At the end of the nearly 11-day mission, flight controllers Gene Kranz, Glynn Lunney, and Gerald Griffin left to right with cigars celebrate splashdown
2U-View of Florida from Apollo 7
1u-Mission Control watches the first live television beamed by an American spacecraft, as Eisele and Schirra signal, %22Keep Those Cards and Letters Coming in, Folks
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Posted on May 4, 2016
Trouble began on the sixth day of the flight, November 17. The capsule developed an atmospheric leak, the pressure first dropping from 760 to 380 mm of Mercury. With the drop in cabin pressure all the animal test subjects died. It would have kille...
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Posted on May 12, 2016
An ‘A’ type mission would be flown with a Saturn V and be used to test the Launch vehicle, spacecraft, and a high velocity lunar return. Nasa cover the ‘A’ mission with Apollo 4 & 6.
A ‘B’ type mission would be flow with a Saturn IB and test the lun...
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Tagged:Apollo 1, Apollo 4, Apollo 5, Apollo 6, Apollo 7, Apollo 8, Apollo Stack, Bowman, Chris Kraft, Commandservice Module, Csm, Deke Slayton, Donald Slayton, Eberhard Rees, George Hage, George Low, Gilruth, Goodfellow, Houston, Huntsville, Joseph Kotanchik, Julian Scheer, Kleinknecht, Kurt Debus, Lee James, Lm 3, Ludie Richard, Marshall Space Flight Center, Mueller, Naca, Nasa, Owen Maynard, Phillips, President Johnson, Rocco Petrone, Saturn Ib, Saturn V, Schneider, Seven Step Plan To Lunar Landing, Webb, Wernher Von Braun, Willis H Shapley
Posted on May 19, 2016
Perhaps the most significant point about the lunar-orbit flight proposed for Apollo 8 was that the command and service modules would fly the same route to the moon as would be used for the actual lunar landing.
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Posted on May 26, 2016
Frank Frederick Borman, II was born on March 14, 1928, in Gary, Indiana. He is of German descent, born as the first and only child to parents Edwin and Marjorie Borman. Because he suffered from numerous sinus problems in the cold and damp weather, hi...
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Tagged:Air Force Distinguished Service Medal, Air Force Master Astronaut Badge, Apollo 1, Apollo 7, Apollo 8, Apollo The Race To The Moon, Bowman, Cia, Commandservice Module, Congressional Space Medal Of Honor, Csm, Deke Slayton, Distinguished Flying Cross, Donald Slayton, Eastern Airlines, Ed White, Frank Borman, Grumman, Gus Grissom, Houston, Huntsville, James Lovell, Legion Of Merit, Lm 3, Marshall Space Flight Center, Nasa, Nasa Exceptional Service Medal, Presidents Science Advisory Committee, Roger Chaffee, Saturn V, Science And Technology Advisory Committee, Webb, Wernher Von Braun, William Anders, Zond 5
Posted on June 2, 2016
The successful Apollo 7 flight cleared the way for a US moon landing in 1969. Still a lot of flight and ground testing remained and there would probably be surprises. The greatest concern was Nasa had to complete three virtually flawless missions a...
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1-Apollo 8 Crew
Tagged:Apollo 1, Apollo 10, Apollo 17, Apollo 7, Apollo 8, Apollo The Race To The Moon, Bill Anders, Buzz Aldrin, Charles Bassett, Chris Kraft, Clifford Charlesworth, Csm, Deke Slayton, Donald Slayton, Elliot See, F2h Banshee, Frank Borman, Gene Cernan, General Houston, Houston, Huntsville, James Lovell, John Mayer, John Mccain, Lyndon Johnson, Marilyn Lovell, Marshall Space Flight Center, Mike Collins, Nasa, Neil Armstrong, Pacific Fleet, Patuxent River, Pete Conrad, Richard Nixion, Saturn V, Simulation Supervisor, Tom Stafford, Wally Schirra, Wernher Von Braun, William Anders
Posted on June 8, 2016
For now the mighty Saturn V stood empty. But overnight, even while Borman’s crew slept, technicians would ready it for departure. By morning its enormous fuel thanks would be filled with cryogenic propellants, until the rocket would contain the exp...
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Tagged:Al Shepard, Apollo 7, Apollo 8, Bill Anders, Buzz Aldrin, Clifford Charlesworth, Csm, Deke Slayton, Dick Proffitt, Donald Slayton, F 1, Frank Borman, Gemini 7, George Low, Goddard, Howard Tindall, Huntsville, Jack King, Jack Schmitt, James Lovell, John Mayer, Lindbergh, Lyndon Johnson, Marilyn Lovell, Marshall Space Flight Center, Nasa, Neil Armstrong, Saturn V, Simulation Supervisor, Titan, Trench, Wernher Von Braun, William Anders
Posted on June 15, 2016
Until now the astronauts knew, in the back of their minds, there was a possibility that a malfunction would turn this countdown into just another practice run and they would have to get out and try again another day. But, as the count reached T minus...
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Posted on June 22, 2016
At T plus 40 seconds Apollo 8 went supersonic and the ride smoothed out. Now it was quite again, but Borman kept a watchful eye on the trajectory readouts. If there was a Saturn malfunction he could whisk the capsule away just by twisting the abort h...
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Posted on July 6, 2016
Just a few minutes after Apollo 8’s second TV broadcast, Borman, Lovell, and Anders passed Earth’s gravitational hill top and crossed into the Moon’s gravitational sphere of influence.
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Posted on July 13, 2016
As Apollo 8 drifted above the far side of the moon Borman, Lovell, and Anders observed a scene of total desolation. It appeared absent of color, except for various shades of gray. There was no atmosphere to soften the view, it was a scene of extrem...
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Posted on July 20, 2016
Bill Anders:
“We are now approaching lunar sunrise, and for all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message that we would like to send to you.”
“‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
‘And the earth was without fo...
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Tagged:540, Apollo 10, Apollo 11, Apollo 7, Apollo 8, Apollo 9, Bible, Bill Anders, Buzz Aldrin, Chis Kraft, Christmas, Clifford Charlesworth, Csm, Deke Slayton, Democratic National Convention, Donald Slayton, Earthrise, Frank Borman, Gemini 7, Genesis, George Low, Houston, Huntsville, Jack King, James Lovell, Marilyn Lovell, Marshall Space Flight Center, Martin Luther King, Mission Control Center, Nasa, President Johnson, President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Saturn V, Titan, Tsiokovsky, William Anders
Posted on August 3, 2016
New York City welcomed the Apollo 8 crew with a ticker-tape parade on the 10th of January, Newark hailed them on the 11th, and Miami greeted them on the 12th during the Super Bowl game. The Astronauts returned to Houston on the 13th for a hometown pa...
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Posted on September 7, 2016
Finally, on the morning of February 21, all the population of the N1 assembly area and a residential area, situated just south of the launch pad, was ordered to evacuate. The giant service structure then rolled away leaving the dark-gray rocket with ...
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Posted on September 14, 2016
The biggest concern before Apollo 9 was the docking maneuver. In early 1969, at NASA there was little confidence in the docking system. At a January program review, Phillips said that problems encountered during probe and drogue testing worried him…
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Tagged:A7l Pressure Suit, Apollo 1, Apollo 10, Apollo 11, Apollo 7, Apollo 8, Apollo 9, As 205208, Bethpage, Chis Kraft, Csm, Dave Scott, Deke Slayton, Donald Cheatham, Donald Slayton, Frank Borman, Gemini 6, Gemini 7, George Low, George Mueller, Gilruth, Golden Slippers, Grumman, Gumdrop, Houston, Kleinknecht, Langley, Launch Complex 39, Lunar Module 3, Marshall Space Flight Center, Martin Raines, Mcdivitt, Mission Control Center, Nasa, Neil Armstrong, North American, Paul Haney, President Kennedy, Samuel Phillips, Saturn V, Schweickart, Scott, Spider
Posted on December 14, 2022
Having two rockets stacked on pads 39A and 39B at the same time made for quite a sight at the Kennedy Space Center. There were also two firing rooms at KSC’s Launch Control Center that would control the countdowns for both rockets simultaneously.
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Tagged:Joe Kerwin, Micrometeoroid Shield, Paul Weitz, Pete Conrad, Saturn 1b, Saturn V, Skylab, Skylab 1, Skylab 2
Posted on January 4, 2023
Nasa concluded that the failure of the micrometeoroid shield 63 seconds into the flight caused the breaking of the solar array system. Furthermore, at 593 seconds into the flight the second stage retro rocket plume exhaust resulted in the ripping off...
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Tagged:Joe Kerwin, Micrometeoroid Shield, Paul Weitz, Pete Conrad, Saturn 1b, Saturn V, Shade, Skylab, Skylab 1, Skylab 2
Posted on January 18, 2023
At 07:00 hours Houston time, Skylab 2 roared off its Milk Stool from LC-39B; the first Saturn IB launch in almost five years and only the second launch from Pad 39B.
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Tagged:Joe Kerwin, Micrometeoroid Shield, Paul Weitz, Pete Conrad, Saturn 1b, Saturn V, Shade, Skylab, Skylab 1, Skylab 2
Posted on January 19, 2024
Early in the planning stages of the Skylab flight, there was a desire to keep it in orbit long enough to use it as the core of a larger station.
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