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career post-Apollo
college
Collins and
early life
Ed White and
Gemini flights
heart rate on landing, Apollo 11
landing on/descent to the moon (DOI) (PDI), Apollo 11
launch, Apollo 11
launch preparation, Apollo 11
lunar landing research vehicle and
lunar orbit insertion, Apollo 11
moon walk, Apollo 11
navy service
on chances of survival, Apollo 11
'one small step' line
pictures, TV and camera, Apollo 11
position in Apollo program
PR duties, Apollo 11
quarantine, Apollo 11
re-entry and landing, Apollo 11
rendezvous techniques
return to Eagle, Apollo 11
return to earth, Apollo 11
selected for Apollo 11
selected to be first man to walk on the moon
test pilot
training
undocking, Apollo 11
view from Apollo 11
X-15
Armstrong, Stephen
Armstrong, Viola
Bales, Steve
Bassett, Charlie
Bassett, Jeannie
Bean, Alan
Bell Aerosystems
Belyaev, Pavel
Beregovoi, Georgi
Bondarenko, Valentin
Borman, Frank
Braun, Dr Wernher von
Brown, Dick
Calle, Paul
CapCom see also Mission Control Center, Houston
Cape Kennedy see Kennedy Space Center
Carlton, Bob
Carpentier, Bill
Cernan, Gene
Chaffee, Roger
Charlesworth, Cliff
CIA
Cobb, Jerrie
Cold War see also Soviet Union
Collins, Major General James
Collins, Michael
Air Force
Apollo Project, position within
Buzz Aldrin and
career post-NASA
childhood
command module pilot (CMP)
Gemini flights
joins NASA
launch preparation, Apollo 11
lunar orbit insertion (LOI), Apollo 11
LOI-2, Apollo 11
meals on Apollo 11
moon, on appearance of
moon orbit, Apollo 11
Neil Armstrong and
pictures, TV and camera, Apollo 11
pressure suits, hatred of
quarantine, Apollo 11
re-entry and landing, Apollo 11
return to earth, Apollo 11
selected for mission, Apollo 11
task list, Apollo 11
trans-lunar injection (TLI), Apollo 11
training, Apollo 11
undocking, Apollo 11
views from Apollo 11
weightlessness, Apollo 11
Collins, Patricia
command modules
Block I
Block II
see also Apollo 11
Conrad, Pete
Cooper, Gordon
Cronkite, Walter
Cunningham, Walter
Day, Dick
Deiterich, Chuck
descent orbit insertion (DOI)
direct ascent
Duke, Charlie
Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP)
earth orbit rendezvous (EOR)
Edwards Air Force Base
Ellington Air Force Base
extra-vehicular activities (EVAs)
early NASA
Apollo 11
Gemini
Soviet
Explorer 1
F-1 engine
Faget, Max
Fendell, Ed
Feoktistiv, Konstantin
Freeman, Ted
free return
Frick, Charles
Gagarin, Yuri
Garman, Jack
Gemini, Project
Gemini 4
Gemini 5
Gemini 6
Gemini 7
Gemini 8
Gemini 9
Gemini 10
Gemini 11
Gemini 12
Gemini 13
Gilruth, Dr Robert
Glenn, John
Goodard Space Flight Center, Maryland
Goldstone communications station, California
Gordon, Dick
Greene, Jay
Grissinger, John
Grissom, Gus
Grumman Corporation
Haise, Fred
Hamblin, Dora Jane
Hatleburg, Lieutenant Clancy
Hinch, Derryn
Hirasaki, John
Honeysuckle communications station
Hornet, USS
Houbolt, John
Humphrey, Hubert
In the Shadow of the Moon
International Space Station
Irwin, Jim
Jodrell Bank Observatory
Johnson, Lyndon
Johnson, Sam
Johnson Space Center, Houston see also Manned Spaceflight Center, Houston
Jupiter booster
Kelly, Tom
Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Kennedy, John F.
Khrushchev, Nikita
Khrushchev, Sergei
King, Dr Martin Luther
King, Jack
Kissinger, Henry
Komarov, Vladimir
Koos, Dick
Korolev, Sergei
Kosygin, Alexei
Kraft, Chris
Kranz, Gene
Langley Research Center
Lederer, Jerry
Leonov, Alexei
Lewis, Charles 'Skinny'
Life
Lovell, Jim
Low, George
Luna probes
lunar extra-vehicular visor assembly (LEVA)
lunar landing research vehicle (LLRV)
lunar landing training vehicle (LLTV)
lunar module (LM) Eagle
communications with MOCR
decision to include in mission
development of see also lunar modules, development of
ejection/jettisoning of
fuel
inspection of
descent towards and landing on the moon
launch from moon
lunar gravity and
powered descent capability
rendezvous with Columbia
simulators
surface of moon, time spent on
training to land see LLTV and simulators
undocking with Columbia
lunar modules, development of:
LEM
LM-1
LM-2
LM-3
LM-4
LM-5
lunar orbit insertion (LOI)
lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR)
Lunar Orbiter
Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL)
Lunex Project
Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN)
Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), Houston see also Johnson Space Center
Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL)
Mission Control Center see Mission Control Center, Houston
Marks, Jay
Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
McCandless, Bruce
McDivitt, Jim
McDonald Observatory, Texas
Mercury, Project
Mir Space Station
Mission Control Center, Houston
Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR)
modular equipment stowage assembly (MESA)
moon:
Apollo Project and see Apollo Project
dangers of landing on
far side of
gravitational influence
Kennedy's project for landing on see Kennedy, John F.
landing sites
'mascons'
origin of
surface
temperature
waste on
Mueller, George
N-1 booster, Soviet
NASA see also under individual NASA craft, project and site
National Academy of Sciences, US
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
Neutral Buoyancy Facility, Houston
Nixon, Richard
North American Aviation/Rockwell
Nova rocket
O'Dea, John
O'Hara, Dee
Outer Space Treaty
Paine, Thomas
Parkes communications station
passive thermal control (PTC)
Paules, Gran
Phillips, Sam
'plugs out test'
portable life support system (PLSS)
powered descent initiation (PDI)
Project Horizon
Puddy, Don
Ranger probes
Redstone rocket
Rusk, Dean
Safire, William
Sarkissian, John
Saturn I rocket
Saturn IB rocket
Saturn V rocket
Scheer, Julian
Schirra, Wally
Schmitt, Joe
Schwagmeier, Thomas
Schweickart, Rusty
Scott, Dave
Seamans, Robert
See, Elliot
Sevareid, Eric
Shaffer, Philip
Shea, Joe
Shepard, Alan
Sherrod, Robert
Sibrel, Bart
Skylab
Slayton, Deke
smell of space
Smith, Andrew
Smithsonian Institution
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Soviet Union
Soyuz 1
Soyuz 2
Soyuz 3
Space Task Group, NASA
Sputnik
Sputnik 2
Stafford, Tom
sub-orbital flights
Surveyor probes
UFO sighting, possible Apollo 11 and 121,
Van Allen belts
Vietnam War
'vomit comet' see 'zero-g airplane'
Voskhod 2
V-2
Walker, Joe
Webb, James
Wendt, Guenter
White, Ed
Willoughby, Buck
Woodruff, Reverend Dean
X-15
Yeager, Chuck
Young, John
'zero-g airplane'
Zieglschmid, John
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