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1
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2
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- Spacecraft had 3
modules
- command module - only part
returned to earth
- service module - large propulsion engine
- lunar module - moon lander
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3
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- 3 astronaut concept
- 1 astronaut would
stay in the command module -
- the other 2
astronauts were in
the lunar module and
would land on
the moon
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4
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- Earth orbit only
used the Saturn IB booster
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5
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- Moon mission used the
Saturn V - giant moon
rocket
- 364 ft tall
- 7.5 million lbs thrust
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6
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- 1st stage burned
5000 gallons of fuel per second
- burned for 21/2 minutes
- 160 million hp
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7
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- First 6 were
unmanned flights to
test equipment
- Accident during test
of command module - Jan ‘67 3 astronaut crew
died in oxygen
fire
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8
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- Gus Grissom
- Ed White
- Roger Chaffee
- all died in
fire
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9
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- In 1967 Soviet Cosmonaut Komarov’s spacecraft spun
out of control and
crashed
- He became the
world’s first casualty during
spaceflight
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10
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- Oct ‘68
- Earth orbit
- tested modules
- 163 orbits
- Schirra, Eisele, Cunningham
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11
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- Dec ‘68
- Lunar orbit
- tested Earth-moon trajectory
- 10 lunar orbits
- Borman, Lowell, Anders
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12
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- March ‘69
- Practiced docking with lunar module
- 151 orbits
- McDivitt, Schweickart, Scott
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13
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- May ‘69
- Lunar orbit rehearsal for
landing
- 151 orbits
- Stafford, Young, Cernan
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14
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- July ‘69
- First lunar landing
- Sea of Tranquility
- Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins
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15
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- First walk on the moon
- “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” -
- Armstrong
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16
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- Nov “69
- Second landing on the moon
- Ocean of Storms
- Conrad, Bean, Gordon
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17
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- Apr “70
- Explosion in service module
- used lunar module as ‘lifeboat’
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18
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- Astronauts
- Lowell, Haise, Swigert
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19
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- Jan-Feb “71
- Third landing on moon
- 2 EVA’s
- Shepard, Mitchell, Rosa
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20
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- July-Aug “71
- Fourth landing on moon
- carried lunar rover
- Scott, Irwin, Worden
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21
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- April “72
- Fifth landing on moon
- emphasis on science
- Young, Duke, Mattingly
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22
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- Dec “72
- Sixth landing on moon
- first scientist-astronaut
- Cernan, Evans, Schmitt
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23
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- During the 6
lunar landings -
Apollo astronauts brought back 840 pounds
of moon rocks
- The landing of
Apollo 11 on the moon on
July 20, 1969, marked the
first a human has
visited a body outside the
Earth
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