Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Administrator Aeronautics Air-to-Ground ALSEP Apollo 11 Apollo 9 Apollo Lunar Apollo missions Apollo program Apollo Site Selection Apollo Spacecraft astronauts Back Contamination back-contamination backup crew command module command module pilot Committee conference Conrad crater Director early earth engineers geologic Gilruth Grimwood Headquarters Houston Ibid instruments investigators July Kennedy Space Center kilometers landing sites launch vehicle lunar missions lunar module Lunar Module Pilot Lunar Orbiter Lunar Receiving Laboratory lunar samples lunar science lunar surface experiments Mission Report moon moon's MSC's Mueller multiple addressees NASA NASA's Newell Office of Space OMSF operations photographs prime crew problems Project Apollo quarantine recommended Research rocks Saturn schedule Schmitt Science and Applications science program scientific scientist-astronauts scientists Selection Board service module simulation Skylab Slayton space program Space Science Board Spacecraft Center Surveyor Swenson teams tion unmanned Washington Wilmot N
Popular passages
Page 333 - The recommendations of this conference are limited to the 10-year period following the first Apollo lunar landings because a decade seems to be the approximate maximum time for which developments can be meaningfully forecast. In addition, the long lead times involved in the development of equipment for use in space flight require that recommendations be made to cover this period of time. In carrying out these recommendations, it will be necessary for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
Page 202 - ... QUESTIONS In order to make the case for manned planetary exploration, it is essential, in fact, absolutely essential, to ask the questions in the proper way. First of all, what's it all about? What are we after? I think the answer to these fundamental questions has been given, and given quite well, by the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences and by the Lunar and Planetary Missions Board of NASA. Most scientists agree that there are three fundamental problems: l) to understand...
Page 143 - There doesn't appear to be too much of a general color at all. However, it looks as though some of the rocks and boulders, of which there are quite a few in the near area, it looks as though they're going to have some interesting colors to them.
Page 400 - Daniel S. Greenberg's The Politics of Pure Science (New York: New American Library, 1967). To date, the only NASA insiders to have published accounts of their experiences are several astronauts. Their stories are anecdotal but nonetheless worth reading for insights into the astronauts
Page 37 - THE HISTORY OR EVOLUTIONARY SEQUENCE OF EVENTS BY WHICH THE MOON HAS ARRIVED AT ITS PRESENT CONFIGURATION NOTE: FROM A MEETING SPONSORED BY THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, SPACE SCIENCES BOARD.
Page 303 - ... were experienced with the abort system in the Lunar Module landing radar after separation from the Command Module, but the spacecraft was nonetheless brought to a safe touchdown on February 5. The first lunar EVA lasted four hours and 44 minutes, during which an ALSEP package was deployed in Anon: The Apollo 13 Accident. Hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, US House of Representatives. US Government Printing Office (Washington, DC), June 16, 1970.
Page 6 - From a scientific standpoint, there seems little room for dissent that man's participation in the exploration of the moon and planets will be essential, if and when it becomes technologically feasible to include him.
Page 336 - ... cratered highlands, and (3) major craters. The major objective in all of these areas would be to test the geologic interpretations based on the orbiter data and to obtain the detailed data on composition and structure that can only be obtained by landing on the surface . The following equipment would be required for this phase of lunar exploration. 1 . Automatic position recording systems . These are required for tracking and recording movements of the astronaut, roving vehicle, and cameras....
Page 143 - We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape, angularity, granularity, about every variety of rock you could find. The colors — well, it varies pretty much depending on how you're looking relative to the zerophase point.
Page 331 - Structure and Processes of the Lunar Interior (1) Is the internal structure of the moon radially symmetrical like the earth, and if so, is it differentiated? Specifically, does it have a core, and does it have a crust? (2) What is the geometric shape of the moon? How does the shape depart from fluid equilibrium? Is there a fundamental difference in morphology and history between the sub-earth and averted faces of the moon ? (3) What is the present internal energy regime of the moon? Specifically,...
References to this book
Bibliographic information
| Title | Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions |
| Author | William D. Compton |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | DIANE Publishing, 1996 |
| ISBN | 078813633X, 9780788136337 |
| Length | 415 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |