by Dan Parry
21 Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
22 NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html
23 Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
24 For further details on the pressure-suit, see Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 1.
25 NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html
26 Ibid.
27 Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
28 Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.
29 Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.
30 NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html
31 Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
Chapter 14: A Walk on the Moon
1 NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11tether.html
2 Chris Kraft, Flight.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.; and Report by John Sarkissian, Parkes Observatory, October 2000, available at http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/
5 Michael Collins, Carrying the Fire.
6 Report by John Sarkissian, Parkes Observatory, October 2000, available at http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/
7 David Harland, The First Men on the Moon.
8 Report by John Sarkissian, Parkes Observatory, October 2000, available at http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/
9 NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html
10 For further details of the EVA, including verbatim accounts from Armstrong and Aldrin, see Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2; and NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html
11 Buzz Aldrin and Wayne Warga, Return to Earth.
12 Andrew Chaikin, A Man on the Moon; and NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html
13 Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
14 Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, with Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin, First on the Moon.
15 Ibid.
16 Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.
17 Ibid.
18 Apollo 11 Preliminary Science Report, via NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html
19 Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
20 Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.
21 NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html
22 Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.
23 Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
24 Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.; and Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
25 Harland, op. cit.; and Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
26 Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.
27 Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
28 Ibid.
29 NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html
30 Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
31 Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.
32 Apollo 11 Preliminary Science Report, via NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html; and Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
33 Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
34 Ibid.
35 Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.
36 Apollo 11 Preliminary Science Report, via NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html
37 Gene Cernan, roll 322, 00:32:09:02.
38 Harland, op. cit.; and Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
39 Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
40 Buzz Aldrin and Malcolm McConnell, Men from Earth (Bantam, 1989), as quoted by NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html
41 Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
42 Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.
43 Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.
Chapter 15: Mission Accomplished
1 Robert Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
2 Michael Collins, Carrying the Fire.
3 Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, with Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin, First on the Moon.
4 Collins, op. cit.
5 Ibid.
6 Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.
7 Collins, op. cit.; and David Harland, The First Men on the Moon.
8 Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
9 For the LM's launch from the Moon, see NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html; Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2; Buzz Aldrin and Wayne Warga, Return to Earth; and Harland, op. cit.
10 Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
11 Ibid.
12 For further information on rendezvous, see NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html; Harland, op. cit.; Collins, op. cit.; Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2; and Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.
13 Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
14 Harland, op. cit.
15 Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
16 For further information on the docking procedure, see Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.; Harland, op. cit.; and Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
17 Harland, op. cit.
18 Collins, op. cit.
19 Mission transcript at 131:07:07.
20 Mission transcript at 130:11:05.
21 Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
22 Ibid.
23 Collins, op. cit.
24 Interview with Max Faget in Glen Swanson (ed.), Before This Decade Is Out.
25 For further details on re-entry, see Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
26 Collins, op. cit.
27 Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
28 Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.
29 Collins, op. cit.; and Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
30 Collins, op. cit.
31 Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.; and David West Reynolds, Apollo, The Epic Journey to the Moon.
32 NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/tnD7141ApPyrotchnc.pdf
33 Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
34 For further details on the recovery, see Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.; Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 1; Harland, op. cit.; and http://www.uss-hornet.org/history/apollo/
35 Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.
36 Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.
37 Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, op. cit.
38 Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.
39 Ibid.
40 Collins, op. cit.
41 Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.
42 For further information on the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, see Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 1; Collins, op. cit.; Harland, op. cit.; and http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4205/ch8-5.html
43 Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2.
44 Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.
45 Collins, op. cit.
46 Aldrin and Warga, op. cit.
47 Ibid.
48 Collins, op. cit.
Epilogue
1 Once on the surface Conrad discovered that pictures of semi-naked girls had been squeezed into the pages of his checklist by the backup crew. See NASA's Lunar Surface Journal, at http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/a12_lmpcuff.pdf
2 Michael Collins, Carryi
ng the Fire.
3 David Harland, The First Men on the Moon; and http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_11/samples/
4 http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_11/samples/
5 David West Reynolds, Apollo, The Epic Journey to the Moon; and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
6 Harland, op. cit.
7 Collins, op. cit.
8 Ibid.
9 Buzz Aldrin and Wayne Warga, Return to Earth.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid.
12 Ibid.; http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/specials/space/article2582966.ece; and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Aldrin
13 Buzz Aldrin, roll 382, 22:13:01:17.
14 Harland, op. cit.
15 Neil Armstrong in conversation with Eric Jones, at NASA's Lunar Surface Journal http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html
16 BBC News, at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2272321.stm; and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2410431.stm
GLOSSARY
AGS Abort Guidance System
AOS Acquisition of Signal
BIG Biological Isolation Garment
CapCom Spacecraft Communicator
CMP Command Module Pilot
CSM Command and Service Module
DAP Digital Autopilot
DOI Descent Orbit Insertion
DPS Descent Propulsion System
DSKY [Computer] Display and Keyboard
EASEP Early Apollo Surface Experiment Package
EMU Extra-vehicular Mobility Unit
EVA Extra-vehicular Activity
FIDO Flight Dynamics Officer
GET Ground Elapsed Time
IMU Inertial Measurement Unit
LEB Lower Equipment Bay
LES Launch Escape System
LEVA Lunar Extra-vehicular Visor Assembly
LLTV Lunar Landing Training Vehicle
LM Lunar Module
LMP Lunar Module Pilot
LOI Lunar Orbit Insertion
LOS Loss Of Signal
LRL Lunar Receiving Laboratory
RRR Laser Ranging Retro-Reflector
MCC Mid-Course Correction
MESA Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly
MOCR Mission Operations Control Room
MQF Mobile Quarantine Facility
MSFN Manned Space Flight Network
NASCOM NASA Communications Network
PDI Powered Descent Initiation
PGNS Primary Guidance and Navigation System
PLSS Portable Life Support System
PPK Personal Preference Kit
PSE Passive Seismic Experiment
PTC Passive Thermal Control
S-IC First Stage of the Saturn V
S-II Second Stage of the Saturn V
S-IVB Third Stage of the Saturn V
SWC Solar Wind Composition (Collector)
TEI Trans-Earth Injection
TLI Trans-lunar Injection
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books, focusing on contemporary works and first-hand accounts
Buzz Aldrin and Wayne Warga, Return to Earth, Random House, 1973
David A. Anderton, Man in Space, 1968
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, with Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin, First on the Moon, Little Brown and Company, 1970
Piers Bizony, The Man Who Ran the Moon, Icon Books, 2006
Andrew Chaikin, A Man on the Moon, Penguin,1994
Michael Collins, Carrying the Fire, Cooper Square Press, 2001 (originally published in 1974 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Michael Collins, Liftoff: The Story of America's Adventure in Space, Grove Press, 1988
Peter Fairley, Man on the Moon, Arthur Barker Limited, 1969
Robert Godwin, Apollo 11, First Men on the Moon, Apogee Books, 2005
Robert Godwin (ed.), Apollo 11, The NASA Mission Reports, Volumes 1, 2 and 3, Apogee Books, 1999
Richard P. Hallion and Tom D. Crouch (eds), Apollo: Ten Years Since Tranquility Base, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979
Dr James Hansen, FirstMan, The Life of Neil Armstrong, Simon & Schuster, 2005
David Harland, The First Men on the Moon, Praxis Publishing, 2007
Edwin P. Hoyt, The Space Dealers: A Hard Look at the Role of Business in the U.S. Space Effort, The John Day Co., 1971
Chris Kraft, Flight, My Life in Mission Control, Plume, 2002
Gene Kranz, Failure Is Not an Option, Berkley, 2000
Norman Mailer, Of a Fire on the Moon, Little, Brown, 1970
Stephanie Nolen, Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race, Penguin Canada, Toronto, 2002
Rod Pyle, Destination Moon, Carlton Publishing Group, 2005
David West Reynolds, Apollo, The Epic Journey to the Moon, Tehabi, 2002
Robert Seamans, Project Apollo, The Tough Decisions, NASA, 2005
David Shayler, Disasters and Accidents in Manned Spaceflight, Praxis, 2000
Deke Slayton, Deke!, Forge, 1994
Andrew Smith, Moondust, Bloomsbury, 2005
James C. Sparks, Moon Landing, Project Apollo, Dodd, Mead, 1970
Glen Swanson (ed.), Before This Decade Is Out, University Press of Florida, 2002
Loyd Swenson, James Grimwood and Charles Alexander, This New Ocean, NASA, 1998
Guenter Wendt, The Unbroken Chain, Apogee Books, 2001
Websites
history.nasa.gov/monograph4
history.msfc.nasa.gov/saturn_apollo/first_saturn_rocket.html
history.nasa.gov/SP-4205
www.thespacereview.com/article/735/1
www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/jfk/houston/stories/dinner.html
www.britannica.com/eb/article-9057747/Outer-Space-Treaty#145193.hook
www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/670127.asp
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.1201-fm.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/attm/a11.jo.fc.1.html
www.thespacereview.com/article/188/3
www.thespacereview.com/article/735/1
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/moon/peopleevents/p_wives.html
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7085003.stm
www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/SP-4204
www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11
www.uss-hornet.org/history/apollo
www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_11/samples
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2272321.stm
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2410431.stm
Use the following NASA link to find out when the International Space Station can be seen with the naked eye above your home town: spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/index.html
INDEX
Aaron, John
Abernathy, Reverend Ralph
Agena target vehicle
Air and Space Museum see Smithsonian Institution
Aldrin, Buzz (Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr)
Apollo 8
career post-Apollo 11
childhood
Gemini flights
landing on the moon
launch, Apollo 11
launch preparation, Apollo 11
MIT
moon, on appearance of
moon walk,
NASA, joins
Neil Armstrong and
position in Apollo program
PR duties, Apollo 11
quarantine, Apollo 11
re-entry and landing, Apollo 11
rendezvous expert
return to Eagle, Apollo 11
return to earth, Apollo 11
selected for Apollo 11
selection for moon walk
on surface of moon, Apollo 11
training
undocking, Apollo 11 command and lunar modules
US Navy
Aldrin, Gene
Aldrin, Joan
Algranti, Joe
Anders, Bill
Apollo, Project
/> Apollo 1 tragedy, effect upon
costs of
Kennedy and see Kennedy, John F.
Soviet Union and see Soviet Union
Apollo 1
Apollo 2
Apollo 3
Apollo 4
Apollo 5
Apollo 6
Apollo 7
Apollo 8
Apollo 9
Apollo 10
Apollo 11
abort procedures
adapter
alarms
command module Columbia
Command Module Pilot (CMP) see also Collins, Michael
communications
computers and computer programs
conspiracy theorists and
contractors, role in building of
descent from lunar orbit to moon surface (DOI) (PDI)
disaster, preparation for
experiments, scientific
flight-plan
launch vehicle/fuel tanks
joystick
landing sites
launch
launch preparation
life support system, portable (PLSS)
lunar extra-vehicular visor assembly (LEVA)
lunar orbit insertion (LOI)
LOI-2
lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR)
lunar orbit, getting into
lunar orbit, leaving
meals
mission patch
Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF)
modular equipment stowage assembly (MESA)
Official Flight Kit
'parking orbit'
passive thermal control (PTC)
personal preference kits (PPKs)
PR and press
primary guidance and navigation system (PGNS)
readiness review
re-entry and landing
rendezvous
rest periods
rockets see also Saturn V
rules, mission
selection process for mission
service module
solar wind collector (SWC)
stack ('space vehicle')
suits, pressure
toilet facilities
training for mission
trans-lunar injection (TLI)
pictures, TV and camera
UFO sighting, possible
water supply
Apollo 12
Apollo 13
Apollo 14
Apollo 16
Apollo 17
Apollo Spacecraft Program Office
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Armstrong, Eric ('Ricky')
Armstrong, Janet
Armstrong, Karen
Armstrong, Mark
Armstrong, Neil
Aldrin and
ambition to be an astronaut
Apollo 8