Dr. LaFever And her 2 nd and 3 rd hour classes Of Parkway North
High School March 27, 2013 A HISTORY OF NASA: MERCURY, GEMINI, AND
APOLLO MISSIONS
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MERCURY MISSION By: Lydia Nichols
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DATES OF THE MISSION 4/18/61 1 st launch simulation at the pad
5/05/61 launch They split the actual launch in half to give the
people a rest, the countdown started on the 4 th but the launch
happened on the 5 th Soviets launched Yuri Gagarin into space on
April 12, 1961, upsetting the US bid to have the first man in
space
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DURATION, WHO, AND MISSION Duration: 15 min 28 sec Crew: Alan
B. Shepard Jr. (Known as the smartest of all Mercury astronauts and
famous for staying calm hours on the launch pad, finally announcing
Lets light this candle!) Payload: Spacecraft No. 7, Launch Vehicle
MR-7 Mission: to see if man is capable to survive in the
environment of space; to go out and come back
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HIGHLIGHTS AND LANDING Highlights: the mission was successful
Landing: May 5, 1961 75 53min longitude 27 13.7min latitude In the
Atlantic Ocean
MISSION/PAYLOAD Mercury-redstone 4 Was caring : Spacecraft #
11, Launch Vehicle S/N MR-8 Launch date: July 21, 1961, 7:20 am
EST. The launch was originally scheduled for July 18, 1961 but was
rescheduled to July 19, 1961 because of unfavorable weather
conditions.
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CREW Virgil (Gus) Grissom Back up crew John H. Glen Jr.
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HIGHLIGHTS/LOWLIGHTS The MR-4 flight plan was very much the
same as that for MR-3. The range was 262.5 nautical miles, the
maximum altitude was 102.8 nautical miles, and the period of
weightlessness lasted for approximately 5 minutes. Flight
successful but the spacecraft was lost during the post landing
recovery period as a result of premature actuation of the
explosively actuated side egress hatch. The capsule sank in 15,000
feet of water shortly after splashdown. The astronaut egressed from
the spacecraft immediately after hatch actuation and was retrieved
after being in the water for about 3 to 4 minutes.
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LANDING Atlantic Ocean, 302 miles East of launch site. Drogue
parachute was deployed at T+9 minutes 41 seconds and main parachute
at T+10 minutes 14 seconds. Landing occurred at T+15 minutes 37
seconds
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MERCURY-ATLAS 6 (FRIENDSHIP 7) By: Zach Hacker and Matt
Rizzo
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BASIC SUMMARY February 20 th, 1962 is when it was launched It
only last 4 hours and 55 minutes Mission was called Mercury-Atlas 6
(MA-6) (CapCom famously says God speed, John Glenn)
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COMMAND MODULES AND LUNAR MODULES Command Module: Friendship 7
No Lunar Module
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MEMBERS OF CREW John Glenn was the only member of the crew M
Scott Carpenter was the backup crew member for Glenn
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HIGHLIGHTS AND LOWLIGHTS The mission was for John Glenn to be
the first astronaut to orbit the Earth, and after 3 trips around
the Earth, he returned safely back into the Atlantic Ocean
Everything went as planned and it couldnt have been a more
successful mission in most peoples eyes It did miss the landing
zone by about 40 miles but it was not a huge factor in the end
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By: Carleigh Jones and Courtney Mcderby
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DATES AND LENGTH OF MISSION Launched: May 24, 1962. 7:45:16
EST. Landed: May 24, 1962. 12:41 p.m. EST. 19deg 29min North 64deg
05min West. Length of Mission: Total time weightless 4 hours 39min
32sec.
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Crew Member M. Scott Carpenter Command and Lunar Module Mercury
spacecraft and Atlas launch He is best known as one of the original
seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury in April 1959.
Carpenter was the second American to orbit the Earth and the fourth
American in space, following Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom and John
Glenn. Carpenter and Glenn are the last living members of the
Mercury Seven.
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HIGHLIGHTS AND LOWLIGHTS Highlight: The performance of the
launch vehicle was exceptionally good with the countdown, launch
and insertion conforming very closely to planned conditions.
Lowlight: Cabin and pressure-suit temperatures were high but not
intolerable. Some uncertainties in the data telemetered from the
bioinstrumentation prevailed at times during the flight; however,
associated information was available which indicated continued
well-being of the astronaut.
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RE-ENTRY TO EARTH Spacecraft overshot intended target area by
250 nautical miles. After landing, Carpenter reported a severe list
angle on the order of 60 degrees from vertical and post flight
photographs of the spacecraft taken after egress indicated
approximately a 45 degree list angle.
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WALLY SCHIRRA Original Mercury astronaut, only astronaut to fly
in Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions On October 3, 1962, Schirra
became the fifth American in space, piloting the Mercury-Atlas 8
(Sigma 7) on a six-orbit mission lasting 9 hours, 13 minutes, and
11 seconds.Mercury-Atlas 8 The capsule attained a velocity of
17,557 miles per hour (28,255 km/h) and an altitude of 175 statute
miles (282 km), orbits the earth six times and landed within 4
miles (6.4 km) of the main Pacific Ocean recovery ship.
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GORDON COOPER Cooper was launched into space on May 15, 1963
aboard the Mercury-Atlas 9 ( Faith 7 ) spacecraft, the last Mercury
mission.Mercury-Atlas 9 He orbited the Earth 22 times and logged
more time in space than all five previous Mercury astronauts
combined34 hours, 19 minutes and 49 seconds, traveling 546,167
miles (878,971 km) at 17,547 mph (28,239 km/h), pulling a maximum
of 7.6 g (74.48 m/s). g Orbits 22 times, first to sleep on the
launchpad, in space, and last to orbit alone
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THE GEMINI MISSIONS
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GEMINI 3 Gus Grissom and John Young March 23 1965 Ride the
Titan missle First time there are two people in space together
Issue on re-entry: Oops, the earth rotates beneath us! Gemini 3
splashes down 60 miles short of target landing Grissom gets
massively seasick waiting for crews for over 2 hours, but John
Young is a navy veteran and did not mind the waves Parade in
Manhattan follows mission
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GEMINI 4 By: Aaron Lake and Michael Lorenzo Smith II
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TWO MAN CREW James McDivitt and Edward H. White II
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FOR YOUR INFORMATION.. Gemini 4 (or Gemini IV) was the second
manned space flight in NASA's Project Gemini, occurring in June
1965. It was the tenth manned American spaceflight Astronauts James
McDivitt and Edward H. White II circled the Earth 66 times in four
days, making it the first US flight to approach the five-day flight
of the Soviet Vostok 5.
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COUNTIUED The highlight of the mission was the first space walk
by an American, during which White floated free outside the
spacecraft, tethered to it, for approximately 20 minutes. Both of
these accomplishments helped the United States overcome the Soviet
Union's early lead in the Space Race. The flight was the first
American flight to perform many scientific experiments in space,
including use of a sextant to investigate the use of celestial
navigation for lunar flight in the Apollo program.
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GEMINI 7
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was a 1965 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was
the 4th manned Gemini flight, the 12th manned American flight and
the 20th spaceflight of all time. Spend 14 days in space
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Command Pilot Frank F. Borman, II First spaceflight Pilot James
A. Lovell, Jr First spaceflight
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Gemini 7 was launched from Complex 19 at 2:30:03 p.m.
(2:30:03.702 UT) on 4 December 1965 and inserted into a 161.6 x
328.2 km orbit at 2:36:11
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GEMINI 6 Duncan Brown & Sean Hayes
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MISSION INFO Dates: Original Launch Rocket Explosion: October
25, 1965 at 3:06 p.m. First Attempt: December 6, 1965 at 9:54 a.m.
Successful attempt: December 15, 1965 8:37 a.m. Duration of Mission
1 Day, 1 hour, 51 min, 24 seconds
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MISSION INFO (CONT.) Crew Members Stafford and Schirra (left to
right) Command Module Gemini 6 Mission Name Gemini 6A
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MISSION INFO (CONT.) Highlights 1 ft. from Gemini 7 First
Instruments Played in Space (Harmonica) Lowlights Explosion of the
original launch rocket on pad
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REENTRY 11 miles from intended landing zone Recovered by USS
Wasp First Televised recovery
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GEMINI 9 Grant Dachroeden Jason Bladow
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GEMINI 8 Alex Moore and Collin Weber
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DATE OF MISSION The date of the mission was march 16 th
1966
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DURATION OF THE MISSION The duration of this mission was 10
hours and 41 minutes
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CREW MEMBERS There were only 2 member of this mission Neil
Armstrong and David Scott
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HIGHLIGHTS AND LOWLIGHTS Early termination of the mission
precluded achievement of many mission objectives, but the
rendezvous and docking was accomplished, as was the evaluation of
the auxiliary tape memory unit and demonstration of controlled
reentry. Of the six scientific experiments only the Agena
micrometeorite collection was successful. The others -- (1)
zodiacal light photography, (2) frog egg growth, (3) synoptic
terrain photography, (4) nuclear emulsions, and (5)
spectrophotography of clouds -- were incomplete.
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RE-ENTRY the spacecraft splashed down in the western Pacific
Ocean about 800 km west of Okinawa at 25.22 N, 136.00 E, 2 km from
the target. The time was 10:22 p.m., but was during the day at the
splashdown site. The crew was picked up by the recovery ship U.S.S.
Mason 3 hours later
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MODULES The Gemini spacecraft was a cone-shaped capsule
consisting of two components, a reentry module and an adaptor
module. The adaptor module was an externally skinned, stringer
framed structure, with magnesium stringers and an aluminum alloy
frame. The reentry module consisted mainly of the pressurized cabin
which held the two Gemini astronauts
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WORK CITED
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(GEMINI 8) Dave Scott and Neil Armstrong practice docking in
space Thursters get stuck and the command module spins
uncontrollably in space Thanks to the expert piloting of Armstrong,
the re-entry rockets he turns on stop the spinning but use up
precious fuel The mission is aborted and splashdown occurs in
Okinowa near Japan
CREW Elliot M. See, Jr. Charles M. Bassett II This crew died in
a plane crash (attempting to land at Lambert) four months before
the launch. Thomas P. Stafford (vet) Eugene A. Cernan
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OBJECTIVE Perform rendezvous and docking and conduct EVA 7
experiments
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OUTCOME Training craft did not jettison a shroud, so docking
was not possible. Unable to test an Air Force maneuvering unit due
to foggy visor. Landing a success: only.704 miles off target
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GEMINI 12 Jason Lohe and Andy Huss
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DATE AND DURATION November 11, 1966 November 15, 1966 The
mission lasted four days
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CREW Actual Crew Command Pilot Jim Lovell Pilot Edwin Aldrin
Backup Crew: Command Pilot L Gordon Cooper Pilot Eugene Cernan
Support Crew Stuart Roosa, Charles Conrad, and William Anders
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HIGHLIGHTS 14 experiments were conducted during the mission
ranging from frog egg growth to dim-sky photography
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RE-ENTRY Gemeni 12 missed its target by 4.8 km The Command
Module was called Gemini XII
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APOLLO I Brian Lambert
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THE MISSION Target Launch Date: February 21, 1967 Duration: The
mission never got off the ground On January 27, 1967 while
preforming a launch pad test the cabin caught on fire and killed
the three man crew
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Two years after the tragedy of Apollo 1 Successful orbit APOLLO
7
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APOLLO 8 By Jackie Harris
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Launched from Cape Kennedy on Dec.21, 1968 Splashed into the
ocean at 10:51 a.m. on Dec. 27
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CREW MEMBERS Frank Borman (Commander)
http://www.spacefacts.de/bi os/astronauts/english/borm an_frank.htm
www.c-span.org
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WILLIAM ANDERS Lunar Module Pilot commons.wikimedia.org
www.spacefacts.de
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JAMES A. LOVELL JR. Commander Module Pilot
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www.lincolnleadershipprize.org
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HIGHLIGHTS Was the first mission to take humans to the moon and
back First manned mission launched on the Saturn V First manned
mission launched from NASAs latest(at the time) moonport First live
T.V. coverage of the moons surface
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LOWLIGHTS Lovell accidently erased some of the computers
memory, forcing him to do a manual re-alignment in the system so
their location could be monitored
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RE-ENTRY INTO EARTH The descent back to Earth was normal,
everything went as planned except for the landing in the ocean The
parachutes dragged the spacecraft into a Stable 2 position for 6
minutes, however Borman took control and the spacecraft went back
to its apex-up postion
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Command Module- Apollo 8 Lunar Modules- None flown
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APOLLO 9 Cameron Carter
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo9.html
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MISSION DATE Launched March 3, 1969 Landed March 13, 1969 at
12:01 pm Flight lasted 241 hours, 53 seconds
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OBJECTIVE OF MISSION Evaluate crew operations of lunar module
Demonstrate docked vehicle functions in an earth-orbit mission
Verifies that combined space craft is good for lunar flight
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CREW MEMBERS James A. McDivitt (commander) Russell L.
Schweickart (Lunar Module Pilot) David R. Scott (Command Module
Pilot) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ James_McDivitt
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WHAT HAPPENED??? HighlightsLowlights First manned Apollo
docking & undocking Spacewalks tested out new space suits with
mobility pack Pack had: communications and oxygen that circulated
water through suit to keep astronauts cool Eliminates umbilical
connection to spacecraft Carried largest payload ever in orbit
Space sickness cuts extravehicular space walks short
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RETURN TO EARTH Re-entry extended one revolution Heavy seas in
recovery area On target (within 3 miles of recovery ship) Crew saw
recovery ship
DATE OF MISSION/AND BACK may 18 1969 To return on may 26 1969
It was 192 hours 3 minutes 23 seconds Less than for miles from
target
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CREW MEMBERS Thomas p. Stafford John w. young Eugene a.
cernan
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HIGHLIGHTS AND LOWLIGHTS The second to orbit the moon First to
get a few thousand feet from the moon
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COMMAND MODULE AND LUNAR MODULE NAMES l.M: snoopy C.M: Charlie
brown
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Thomas Beilsmith APOLLO 11
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Mission objective to land a crew safely on moon and return to
Earth (Goal set by President Kennedy on May 25 1961) Additional
objectives = live televised coverage, solar wind experiment,
seismic experiment, collect lunar samples, photograph terrain THE
MISSION
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Launched from Cape Kennedy on July 16, 1969 2 hours and 44
minutes later Apollo 11 reached lunar orbit July 20 Astronauts
entered the Lander Eagle and made final checks before launching to
the surface at 100 hours into mission Total mission Duration: July
16-24, 1969 (8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes MISSION FACTS
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Commander Neil Armstrong, Commander Module Pilot Michael
Collins, Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Buzz Aldrin 530 million people
watched televised landing on July 20 CREW MEMBERS
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Aviator in U.S. Navy, flew 78 missions in Korea Received
Bachelors degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Purdue in 1955
Became civilian test pilot for NACA Professor of Aeronautics at
University of Cincinnati First man on moon NEIL ARMSTRONG
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Graduated from U.S. Military Academy 1952 Joined Air Force as
fighter pilot, and later graduated from USAF as experimental test
pilot Became Director of National Air and Space Museum at
Smithsonian in April 1971 after retiring from NASA Acted as Pilot
of Command Module on mission MICHAEL COLLINS
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Graduated from U.S. Military Academy at West Point with
mechanical engineering degree in 1951 Flew 66 combat missions in
Korea with Air Force Backup pilot for Gemini 9, pilot on Gemini 12,
backup module pilot for Apollo 8 Second man on moon BUZZ
ALDRIN
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Mission was a success, crew landed the Eagle on lunar surface
and completed objectives Eagle successfully returned to the
Columbia in space from the Lunar surface Due to bad weather the
Apollo 11 target are was shifted 250 miles from original point
Apollo was recovered by U.S.S Hornet MISSION OVERVIEW
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APOLLO 12 Kyle Toser-Aldaz
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DATES Launch on November 14 th 1969 Splashdown on November 24
th 1969 Duration: Ten days
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CREW Charles Conrad Jr. Commander Alan L. Bean Lunar Module
Pilot Richard F. Gordon Jr. Command Module Pilot http://upload.wi
kimedia.org/wi kipedia/commo ns/c/c8/Conrad -c.jpg http://www.
astronautix. com/graphi cs/i/ibeanal a.jpg http://www.js
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HIGHLIGHTS/LOWLIGHTS Struck twice by lightning during launch.
No permanent damage occurred. Three fuel cells were knocked offline
by lightning. Power supply couldnt handle the necessary current,
and caused much of the instrumentation to malfunction. Problem
easily fixed by switching to a backup power supply. Lunar module
separation went fine, and so did lunar landing. The camera used to
film was accidentally rendered unusable when one crew member
inadvertently pointed it at the sun. The re-entry was standard, and
on-target. One of the crew members was knocked unconscious by a
falling camera.
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COMMAND AND LUNAR MODULES Yankee Clipper Intrepid
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APOLLO 12 November 1969 Al Beam, Pete Conrad, and Richard
Gordon Gordon and Beam land in the Ocean of Storms on the moon It
took 8 hrs to get 75 lbs of rocks Discovered that bacteria on earth
survived in space
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APOLLO 13 Stephanie Haug
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THE MISSION Launched April 11, 1970 at 1:13 p.m. CST Duration
of 5 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes and 41 seconds Command Module:
Odyssey Lunar Module: Aquarius Backup crew member was used because
original command module pilot was exposed to measles
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-13/apollo-13.html
Houston, we have a problem
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THE CREW James A. Lovell Jr. Commander Fred W. Haise Jr. Lunar
Module Pilot John L. Swigert Jr. Command Module Pilot http://
www.biography.com/people/james-a-lovell-jr-37140
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/haise-fw.html
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Swigert
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HIGHLIGHTS AND LOWLIGHTS 5.5 minutes after liftoff, the center
engine shut down early, and the No. 2 oxygen tank blew up at 56
hours which caused No. 1 oxygen tank to fail as well. There was
then a loss of two fuel cells in the CM. The crew had to make it to
the LM lifeboat, which had a working engine. However the crew had
to ration water, conserve energy, and transfer the navigation
system all in effort to make it home safely.
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RE-ENTRY April 17, 1970 Pacific Ocean Near Samoa Recovery Ship:
USS Iwo Jima
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Ian Brown 3 rd Block
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TIMES January 31, 1971 at 4:04:02 pm local time(Kennedy Space
Center, Florida)after a 40 minute, 2 second delay due to launch
site weather restrictions. Duration: 9 d 00 h 01 m 58 s Lunar
Surface Time: 1 d 09 h 30 m 29 s
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CREW MEMBERS Stuart A. RoosaAlan B. Shepard, Jr. Edgar D.
Mitchell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_14_crew.jpg
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HIGHLIGHTS Shepard hit two golf balls on the lunar surface with
a makeshift club he had brought. Made the most precise landing on
record, 87ft from target. Shepard set a new distance-traveled
record on the lunar surface of approximately 9,000 feet. During the
two traverses, the astronauts collected 94 pounds of rocks and soil
for return to Earth. The samples were scheduled to go to 187
scientific teams in the United States, as well as 14 other
countries for study and analysis Roosa, who worked in forestry in
his youth, took several hundred tree seeds on the flight. These
were germinated after the return to Earth, and widely distributed
around the world as commemorative Moon Trees
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LOWLIGHTS Docking with the lunar module, took 6 attempts before
hard dock was achieved. Due to communications system problems, the
first period of extra vehicular activity, or EVA, began almost one
hour later than scheduled with Commander Alan Shepard setting foot
on the lunar surface at 114 hours, 31 minutes GET Rossa experienced
some difficulties with the high-resolution, motion-compensating
Hycon Lunar Topographic Camera while attempting to photograph the
Descartes area, the landing site planned for Apollo 16.
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MODULES Command Module: CM-110, Kitty Hawk Service Module:
SM-110, Antares
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RE-ENTRY On the way back to Earth, the crew conducted the first
U.S. materials processing experiments in space. The command module
Kitty Hawk splashed down in the South Pacific Ocean on February 9,
1971 at 21:05 [UTC], approximately 760 nautical miles (1,410 km)
south of American Samoa. After recovery by the ship USS New
Orleans, the crew was flown to Pago Pago International Airport in
Tafuna for a reception before being flown on a C-141 cargo plane to
Honolulu. The Apollo 14 astronauts were the last lunar explorers to
be quarantined on their return from the Moon.
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APOLLO 15 Kyle Schifferdecker
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DATE OF MISSION/DURATION/CREW MEMBERS The date of Apollo 15 was
July 26 th to August 7 th 1971 The duration of the mission was 12
days The crew members of Apollo 15 were: David R Scott, Alfred M
Worden and James B Irwin
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LOWLIGHTS AND HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MISSION During the launch, the
S-IC failed because of some damage that was caused to it. There
were oxygen leaks. the two astronauts spent 18 hours outside of the
LM and collected approximately 77 kg (170 lbs) of lunar samples. it
was a successful mission!
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RE-ENTRY INTO EARTH-ON TARGET, OFF TARGET/ ANYTHING
SIGNIFICANT? one of the three parachutes on the CM failed to deploy
properly, only two were required for a safe landing (one extra for
redundancy). Upon landing in the North Pacific Ocean, the crew were
recovered and taken aboard the recovery ship, the USS Okinawa after
a mission lasting 12 days, 7 hours, 11 minutes, and 33
seconds.
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MODULES Apollo 15 used Command/Service Module CSM-112, Lunar
Module LM-10, but the Lunar Module went unused and is now on
display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
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APOLLO 16 Cailyn Stamp
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CREW MEMBERS Commander: John W. Young
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from-44-years-ago-today.html Lunar Module Pilot: Charles M. Duke
Jr. http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/art-59349/Charles-M-
Duke-Jr
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Command Module Pilot: Thomas K. Mattingly ||
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Date(s): 12:54 p.m EST April 16, 1972 from Launch Complex 39 at
Kennedy Space Center. Duration: 256 Hours, 51 minutes, 5 seconds.
Highlights: 209 pounds of samples were collected from Young and
Duke. Lowlights: Some command and service module problems. Due to
an error signal, the spacecraft computer began to ignore input. An
experiment was lost after Young tripped on an electronics cable,
accidentally destroying it. 4 stops were deleted from the 3rd EVA
and one stop was deleted from the 2nd EVA both due to time
constraints.
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Module Names: LM,CSM Re-entry into Earth: Normal entry and
landing resulted in splashdown at 0 degrees 42 0 S, 156 degrees 12
49 W, just before 3 p.m. EST April 27.
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APOLLO XVII Jason Thompson
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APOLLO XVII Apollo 17 launched at 12:33 a.m. Eastern Standard
Time on December 7, 1972, with a three man crew consisting of:
Eugene A. Cernan -Commander - Charles M. Duke Jr. -Lunar Module
Pilot- Ronald E. Evans Command Module Pilot
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APOLLO XVII The mission lasted 12 days, 13 hours, and 52
minutes. Command Module: CSM-114 (America) Lunar Module: LM-12
(Challenger) The main objectives of the mission was focused on
geological surveying and sampling of materials and surface features
in a preselected area of the Taurus- Littrow region; deploying and
activating surface experiments; and conducting in-flight
experiments and photographic tasks during lunar orbit and
transearth coast.
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APOLLO XVII HIGHLIGHTS/LOWLIGHTS Mission was launched 2hrs and
40mins late due to countdown issues and air tank issues. Orbited
the moon 75 times. On Dec 10 th at 8:32pm, the crew safely reached
the moons surface, 84 miles off from the landing spot previously
planned. Took 3 separate outings on the moons surface. During the
first walk they planted the flag which was previously planted by
Apollo 11. The second walk was the longest of any other walks
performed on the moon, 7hrs and 37mins, where they went on a long
excursion on a rover. The third walk, they used the rover to visit
North Massif. Brought back a record 253 pounds of rock and
soil.
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APOLLO XVII The return trip to earth and splashdown on Dec 19
th, 1972 in the Pacific Ocean was normal and without any major
issues.