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mobi |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Barbree, Jay & Shepard, Alan & Slayton, Deke [Barbree, Jay]
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Apollo 8: First Around the Moon APOLLO 8 COMMANDER FRANK BORMAN was emerging from a deep sleep, and he resisted the wakefulness that tugged at him. Where am ...
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Engineering
September 19,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Vaughan, Diane [Vaughan, Diane]
Chapter Eight THE EVE OF THE LAUNCH REVISITED We now return to the eve of the launch. Accounts emphasizing valiant attempts by Thiokol engineers to stop the launch, actions of ...
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Astronomy & Space Science
September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Ezell, Edward Clinton; Ezell, Linda Neuman; Dickson, Paul & Linda Neuman Ezell
Table 47 Viking Demonstration and Training Tests Date Test Nature and Results 2 July DT-2 Processing uplink commands to lander through orbiter for cruise checkout. Data processing went well, but ...
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Engineering
September 19,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-09-15 | Author:Charles A. Murray;Catherine Bly Cox
1 “Flight Operations was not born effective,” one veteran reminisced. “It became effective.” Back in 1959, when the Space Task Group was first struggling to put the program together, nothing ...
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Astronomy & Space Science
September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Leopold, George;
Southern Indiana, just beyond the city limits of Mitchell, Gus Grissom’s hometown. Young Virgil likely took in similar rural scenes as he peddled his bicycle out to the country home ...
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Engineering
September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-02 | Author:Claude A. Piantadosi [Piantadosi, Claude A.]
FIGURE 6.3. THE MASS BALANCE OF THE HUMAN BODY. Daily requirements are based on an average metabolic rate for a 70 kg man in a thermally neutral environment (140 watts). ...
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Engineering
September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Jay Barbree & Alan Shepard & Deke Slayton [Barbree, Jay & Shepard, Alan & Slayton, Deke]
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Apollo 8: First Around the Moon APOLLO 8 COMMANDER FRANK BORMAN was emerging from a deep sleep, and he resisted the wakefulness that tugged at him. Where am ...
( Category:
Engineering
September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Dickson, Paul [Dickson, Paul]
The Launching of Juno The actual launch vehicle that would put the first American object in space was sent by plane from Huntsville to Cape Canaveral (the same location where ...
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Astronomy & Space Science
September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-11 | Author:Shayler David
• February 21, 1969 the first Ni launch vehicle was planned on this date to launch a Zond spacecraft to the Moon. However, just 70 seconds into the mission with ...
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Engineering
September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Apollo Expeditions to the Moon
On mock lunar terrain, wearing restrictive pressure suits, Schmitt and Cernan practiced collecting geological samples. They were drilled in formal sampling procedure: locate, radio description of size and color, photograph ...
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Astronomy & Space Science
September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Jay Gallentine [Gallentine, Jay]
14 Devil from Redondo A horrendous undertaking. —Loyal Goff of NASA’s Viking Program Office, on the Viking Biology Instrument Unfettered and indiscriminate in attitude and behavior, the Looney Tunes Tasmanian ...
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Astronomy & Space Science
September 19,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-05-01 | Author:Burgess, Colin & Doolan, Kate [Burgess, Colin]
Hank West, who by now had retired from the air force and was working for General Dynamics, made the following observation: “Remembering Ed’s competiveness, persistence and love of adventure, I ...
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Engineering
September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Paolo Ulivi;David M. Harland
Meanwhile, the other instruments had also been returning data. The initial runs of the gas chromatograph analyzed the composition of the atmosphere, finding it to be 95 per cent carbon ...
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Engineering
September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-11 | Author:Shayler David;Colin Burgess
Deep-space EVA When America was 184,000 miles from Earth, it was time for Command Module pilot Ron Evans to take his turn in the limelight. As Apollo 17 sped back ...
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Engineering
September 19,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-11-07 | Author:Lawrie, Alan [Lawrie, Alan]
Four F-1 AND J-2 ENGINES Five J-2 engines were used on the Saturn V second stage, and one was used on the third stage. They were manufactured by Rocketdyne at ...
( Category:
Astronomy & Space Science
September 19,2017 )
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