 | Roger E. Bilstein - History - 1996 - 544 pages
...testing the descent stage, which was jettisoned before the ascent stage rendezvoused with the CSM. The mission demonstrated the lunar orbit rendezvous...and Aeronautics, 1969, in recapitulating the mission ofApolloll, devoted only a few lines to the Saturn V launch vehicle. The stars of the show were the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences - 1970 - 1592 pages
...members of this Committee. APOLLO 11 LIFTOFF JULY 16, 1969 . I . FIGURE 18 The crew was composed of Commander Neil A. Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin A. Aldrin. Performing perfectly, the Saturn V booster inserted the 3rd stage and spacecraft into a... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics - 1970 - 946 pages
...IVI RESIOUil P«OPtU»NT DUMP SUNCSHDT >ND Sll'« F«t >llll»» IMIiCTOI' The crew was composed of Commander Neil A. Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin A. Aldrin. Performing perfectly, the Saturn V booster inserted the 3rd stage and spacecraft into a... | |
 | Jennifer Ouellette - Science - 2005 - 340 pages
...unprecedented media coverage, the Apollo 1 1 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Commander Neil A. Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin found themselves inside the most powerful rocket ever built, on a three-day journey to... | |
 | Michelle Kaiser - Austrian Canadians Biography - 2006 - 194 pages
...weeks 13 July 20, 1969 was an important day in history. That was when the crew of Apollo 11, under Commander Neil A. Armstrong, Command Module pilot...Michael Collins, and Lunar Module pilot Edwin E. Aldrin, was the first team ever to land on the moon. After their spacecraft touched down at 4:18 pm EOT, Neil... | |
 | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Astronautics - 1961 - 20 pages
...camera breaking the monotony of the lunar surface in the background. Apollo 11 Crew: (left to right) Commander Neil A. Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin, Jr. I —- t JULY 16 9:32 am EDT-On schedule to within less than a second, Apollo 11... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences - 1970 - 1380 pages
...of the members of this Committee. APOLLO 11 LIFTOFF JULY 16, 1969 FlQUBE 18 The crew was composed of Commander Neil A. Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin A. Aldrin. Performing perfectly, the Saturn V booster inserted the 3rd stage and spacecraft into a... | |
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... went into an Earth-escape trajectory. The spacecraft continued toward the moon and entered into a low, circular lunar orbit. Stafford and Cernan undocked the LM and flew even closer to the lunar surface, testing the descent stage, which was jettisoned... 