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The First Men on the Moon. The Story of Apollo 11

By David M. Harland

Springer | ISBN: 0387341765 | edition 2007 | PDF | 421 pages | 73 mb



The First Men on the Moon offers a lively definitive account of the Apollo 11 mission based on the in-flight transcripts post-flight debriefing, with illustrative contextual pictures, especially featuring recent scans of the original Hasselblad film and including conversations among the crew in the spacecraft that were not transmitted.



Table of contents



List of illustrations...............................................X1

List of tables..................................................XVII

Author's preface................................................X1X

Acknowledgements..............................................XX1



1.The Apollo 11 crew............................................ 1

The hand of fate............................................. 1

Neil Armstrong.............................................. 2

Buzz Aldrin................................................. 9

Michael Collins..............................................H

Amiable strangers.............................................12



2.Preliminaries.................................................

Lunar surface experiments......................................13

First man out................................................16

Portable life-support system.....................................17

Landing site.................................................19

Flight directors...............................................26

Rehearsal...................................................26



3.Preparations.................................................29

Simulation..................................................29

Lunar surface activity..........................................38

Lunar landing...............................................66

Isolation....................................................73

Vehicle preparation...........................................76

Small details.................................................93

Press conference..............................................96

Ready to go.................................................99



4.Setting off.................................................105

An early start...............................................105

Ascent....................................................122

Parking orbit...............................................132

Translunar injection..........................................138



5.Translnnar coast.............................................145

Retrieving Eagle.............................................145

Passive thermal control.......................................153

Flight day 2................................................155

Flight day 3................................................164

Into the Moon's sphere of influence..............................175



6.Into lunar orbit..............................................177

Flight day 4................................................177

Over the hill................................................I82

Sightseeing.................................................186

Orbit refinement.............................................192

Flight day 5................................................198

Preparing Eagle.............................................200

Undo eking.................................................204



7.Lunar landing...............................................209

Descent orbit insertion........................................209

Powered descent.............................................221

On the surface..............................................243



8.Tranquility Base.............................................251

Post-landing activities.........................................251

EVA preparations...........................................253

Moonwalk.................................................258

Back inside.................................................289



9.Home in triumph.............................................295

Liftoff and rendezvous........................................295

Earthward bound............................................309

Entry and splashdown........................................320

Quarantine.................................................326

Touring...................................................339



10.The Moon revealed...........................................349

Sea of Tranquility...........................................349

Ocean of Storms.............................................357

Fra Mauro Formation........................................359

The end of the beginning......................................360



Glossary.....................................................361

Mission log...................................................365

Further reading................................................371

Index........................................................373



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