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