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Chariots For Apollo
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Author : Courtney G. Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-05-14
Chariots For Apollo written by Courtney G. Brooks and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-14 with Science categories.
This illustrated history by a trio of experts is the definitive reference on the Apollo spacecraft and lunar modules. It traces the vehicles' design, development, and operation in space. More than 100 photographs and illustrations.
Chariots For Apollo
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Author : Charles R. Pellegrino
language : en
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date : 1999
Chariots For Apollo written by Charles R. Pellegrino and has been published by Harper Perennial this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
The fascinating and true story of one of America's greatest scientific achievements: the race to put a man on the Moon and bring him home safely.
Chariots For Apollo
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Author : James M. Grimwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
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Chariots For Apollo A History Of Manned Lunar Spacecraft
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language : en
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NASA presents the full text of the electronic book entitled "Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft," written by Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, and Loyd S. Swenson. The book was published as NASA Special Publication 4205 in the NASA History Series. The book highlights the complete history of the U.S. space agency.
Chariots For Apollo
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Author : National Aeronautics Administration
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-10
Chariots For Apollo written by National Aeronautics Administration and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with categories.
Apollo was America's program to land men on the moon and get them safely back to the earth. In May 1961 President Kennedy gave the signal for planning and developing the machines to take men to that body. This decision, although bold and startling at the time, was not made at random nor did it lack a sound engineering base. Subcommittees of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), predecessor of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), had regularly surveyed aeronautical needs and pointed out problems for immediate resolution and specific areas for advanced research. After NASA's creation in October 1958, its leaders (many of them former NACA officials) continued to operate in this fashion and, less than a year later, set up a group to study what the agency should do in near−earth and deep−space exploration. Among the items listed by that group was a lunar landing, a proposal also discussed in circles outside NASA as a means for achieving and demonstrating technological supremacy in space. From the time Russia launched its first Sputnik in October 1957, many Americans had viewed the moon as a logical goal. A two-nation space race subsequently made that destination America's national objective for the 1960s. America had a program, Project Mercury, to put man in low-earth orbit and recover him safely. In July 1960 NASA announced plans to follow Mercury with a program, later named Apollo, to fly men around the moon. Soon thereafter, several industrial firms were awarded contracts to study the feasibility of such an enterprise. The companies had scarcely finished this task when the Russians scored again, orbiting the first space traveler, Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, on 12 April 1961. Three weeks later the Americans succeeded in launching Astronaut Alan Shepard into a suborbital arc. These events and other pressures to get America moving provided the popular, political, and technological foundations upon which President Kennedy could base his appeal for support from the Congress and the American people for the Apollo program. The Apollo story has many pieces: How and why did it start? What made it work? What did it accomplish? What did it mean? Some of its visible (and some not so visible) parts the launch vehicles, special facilities, administration, Skylab program, Apollo−Soyuz Test Project, as examples, have been recorded by the NASA History Office and some have not. A single volume treating all aspects of Apollo, whatever they were, must await the passage of time to permit a fair perspective. At that later date, this manuscript may seem narrow in scope and perhaps it is. But among present readers, particularly those who were Apollo program participants there are some who argue that the text is too broad and that their specialties receive short shrift. Moreover, some top NASA leaders during Apollo's times contend, perhaps rightly, that the authors were not familiar with all the nuances of some of the accounts set down here. Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft begins with the creation of NASA itself and with the definition of a manned space flight program to follow Mercury. It ends with Apollo 11, when America attained its goal of the 1960s, landing the first men on the moon and returning them to the earth. The focal points of this story are the spacecraft the command and service modules and the lunar module.
Moon Lander
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Author : Thomas J. Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Release Date : 2009-09-11
Moon Lander written by Thomas J. Kelly and has been published by Smithsonian Institution this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-11 with Science categories.
Chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly gives a firsthand account of designing, building, testing, and flying the Apollo lunar module. It was, he writes, “an aerospace engineer’s dream job of the century.” Kelly’s account begins with the imaginative process of sketching solutions to a host of technical challenges with an emphasis on safety, reliability, and maintainability. He catalogs numerous test failures, including propulsion-system leaks, ascent-engine instability, stress corrosion of the aluminum alloy parts, and battery problems, as well as their fixes under the ever-present constraints of budget and schedule. He also recaptures the exhilaration of hearing Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong report that “The Eagle has landed,” and the pride of having inadvertently provided a vital “lifeboat” for the crew of the disabled Apollo 13.
John Houbolt
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Author : William F. Causey
language : en
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-15
John Houbolt written by William F. Causey and has been published by Purdue University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-15 with History categories.
In May 1961, President Kennedy announced that the United States would attempt to land a man on the moon and return him safely to the earth before the end of that decade. Yet NASA did not have a specific plan for how to accomplish that goal. Over the next fourteen months, NASA vigorously debated several options. At first the consensus was to send one big rocket with several astronauts to the moon, land and explore, and then take off and return the astronauts to earth in the same vehicle. Another idea involved launching several smaller Saturn V rockets into the earth orbit, where a lander would be assembled and fueled before sending the crew to the moon. But it was a small group of engineers led by John C. Houbolt who came up with the plan that propelled human beings to the moon and back—not only safely, but faster, cheaper, and more reliably. Houbolt and his colleagues called it “lunar orbit rendezvous,” or “LOR.” At first the LOR idea was ignored, then it was criticized, and then finally dismissed by many senior NASA officials. Nevertheless, the group, under Houbolt’s leadership, continued to press the LOR idea, arguing that it was the only way to get men to the moon and back by President Kennedy’s deadline. Houbolt persisted, risking his career in the face of overwhelming opposition. This is the story of how John Houbolt convinced NASA to adopt the plan that made history.
Stages To Saturn
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Author : Roger E. Bilstein
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 1999-08
Stages To Saturn written by Roger E. Bilstein and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08 with categories.
The Partnership A History Of The Apollo Soyuz Test Project
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Author : Edward Clinton Ezell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
The Partnership A History Of The Apollo Soyuz Test Project written by Edward Clinton Ezell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Apollo Soyuz Test Project categories.
Living And Working In Space
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Author : William David Compton
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2013-05-13
Living And Working In Space written by William David Compton and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with Science categories.
The official record of America's first space station, this book from the NASA History Series chronicles the Skylab program from its planning during the 1960s through its 1973 launch and 1979 conclusion. Definitive accounts examine the project's achievements as well as its use of discoveries and technology developed during the Apollo program. 1983 edition.