Liftoff of Apollo 11, July 16, 1969 On the morning of July 16, 1969, I overslept, missing the beginning of the most significant space mission ever undertaken. At 9:32 a.m. that morning, Apollo 11 lifted off for the Moon. Four days later, I found myself with my mother and father v...
67-year-old retired Navy officer and businessman, who served as a technical consultant on the movie. “The idea of how dangerous it was was in everybody’s mind, but we put it aside. As long as we had some options, we were OK.” ...
The five F-1 engines used in the 138-foot-tall Saturn V first stage known as the S-IC generated 7.5 million pounds of liftoff thrust, or some 1.5 million pounds each. They stand 19 feet tall by 12 feet wide. Each one weighs over 18,000 pounds and was manufactured b...
“Forty years after NASA’s Apollo 11 mission first landed astronauts on the moon, this striking nonfiction picture book takes young readers along for the ride. The moon shines down on Earth, where three men don spacesuits, climb intoColumbia, and wait for liftoff. On a nearby beach, people...
on both an on-time liftoff and a full night's rest, the third EVA had to be shortened. Nonessential activities - like a scheduled science debriefing - were dropped; but there wasn't much padding in the schedule. By morning, Scott and Irwin had only been able to catch up by about ten...
Asthe nation grieved, NASA prepared to move forward. The Apollo capsules would be studied and design flaws fixed. Astronaut Frank Borman was assigned to oversee much of that project. For the next year Borman spent most of his time in California, doing hands-on inspections on the factory floor...
Apollo 12— Nov. 14, 1969. Astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad, Alan Bean and Richard Gordon survived two lightning strikes during liftoff and reached a different spot on the moon than Apollo 11, touching down in a place called the Ocean of Storms. Moonwalkers Conrad and Bean visited NASA's ...
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin reported that the flag was blown over by the exhaust from the ascent engine during liftoff of Apollo 11, and it looks like he was correct! The most convincing way to see that the flags are still there, is to view a time series of LROC images taken at different ...
Members of the Kennedy Space Center government-industry team rise from their consoles within the Launch Control Center to watch the Apollo 11 liftoff through a window. NASA During the Mercury program, post-flight heart rate increased and blood pressure decreased, causing some of the astronauts to ...
By profession, the 47-year-old Feist is the head of technology at an ad agency in Toronto. But he spends the better part of his off-hours applying his formidable coding skills to the creation of such astonishing reconstitutions of space history as Apollo17.org, which he launched three ...