CRC Press, 2000. — 336 p. Apollo in Perspective: Spaceflight Then and Now takes a retrospective look at the Apollo space program and the technology that was used to land a man on the Moon. Using simple illustrations and school-level mathematics, Jonathan Allday explains the basic physics and technology of spaceflight and conveys the huge technological strides that were made and...
NASA: 1965. — 108 p. This document is the summary volume of the final report of analyses conducted and mission descriptions developed by the Apollo Support Department of General Electric Company under Contract NASw-410 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The report was written in accordance with the requirements of Paragraph B4. 3.4 of the Work Statement and...
NASA, 1966. — 995 p. This handbook and its contents are restricted to the requirements for Spacecraft 012. It presents, in one document, descriptions of the spacecraft systems and equipment, and listings of the flight crew operational procedures necessary for the safe and efficient function of the spacecraft throughout its planned mission. This handbook is designed primarily...
Horncastle; Morton. 2022. — 132 p. It is now half a century since Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the Moon - the American Apollo space programme representing the peak of human technological achievement amid the tensions of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Yet the scientific knowledge gained from the six manned Moon landings between...
Page Street Publishing, 2019. — 240 p. — eISBN: 978-1-62414-491-2. A Behind-the-Scenes Look At NASA’s incredible Journey to the Moon Space journalist and insider Nancy Atkinson weaves together the riveting story of NASA’s mission to complete “the greatest adventure on which humankind ever embarked.” This incredible account is a keepsake celebrating some of the most important...
Miami: University Press of Florida, 2020. — 23 p. The design processes behind a giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong in a space suit on the moon remains an iconic representation of America's technological ingenuity. Few know that the Model A-7L pressure suit worn by the Apollo 11 astronauts, and the Model A-7LB that replaced it in 1971, originated at ILC Industries (now ILC...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. - 301 p. How did science get aboard the Apollo rockets, and what did scientists do with the space allotted to them? Taking Science to the Moon describes, from the perspective of NASA headquarters, the struggles that took place to include science payloads and lunar exploration as part of the Apollo program. Donald A. Beattie — who served at...
NASA: 1965. — 56 p. Characteristics of lunar landing research vehicle. This paper presents the significant technical details and research capabilities of a free-flight lunar - landing simulator as they existed at the time of the initial flights of the vehicle. The lunar-landing research vehicle (LLRV) consists of a pyramid- shaped structural frame with four truss-type legs. A...
Washington D.C.: Scientific and Technical Information Office, 1978. — 657 p. — (The NASA History Series). Книга НАСА (NASA) об американской лунной программе. Разработки, запуски, инженерные решения, проект лунной станции и всё с этим связанное. Книга содержит множество качественных иллюстраций по теме. The First Steps. Launch Complex 34. Launching the First Saturn I Booster....
The NASA history series. На английском языке. — Scientific and Technical Information Branch. NASA, Washington, DC, 1980. — 534 с.
Иллюстрированная предыстория создания ракеты-носителя Сатурн-5 и описание самого проекта. Множество интересных фактов и иллюстраций. Книга посвящена Вернеру фон Брауну и рабочим, создававшим Сатурн-5.
Книга будет интересна всем, кто связан с...
Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1980. — 513 p. Movement of the rocket from the assembly site to the launch pad was scheduled for 20 May 1969. In slow sequence, the 142-meterhigh doors ponderously opened, retracting upward like a vertical accordion, revealing the launch vehicle inside the huge gray structure known as the Vehicle Assembly Building. As the folding doors...
Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1996. — 536 p. — (The NASA history series). Movement of the rocket from the assembly site to the launch pad was scheduled for 20 May 1969. In slow sequence, the 142-meterhigh doors ponderously opened, retracting upward like a vertical accordion, revealing the launch vehicle inside the huge gray structure known as the Vehicle Assembly...
University of New Mexico Press, 2015. — 270 p. In this companion volume to their extraordinary book of rare photographs from the Mercury and Gemini missions, John Bisney and J. L. Pickering present the rest of the Golden Age of US manned space flight with a photographic history of Project Apollo. Beginning in 1967, Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo chronicles the program's...
Nebraska University Press, 2021. — 255 p. As command module pilot of Apollo 17, the last crewed flight to the moon, Ron Evans combined precision flying and painstaking geological observation with moments of delight and enthusiasm. On his way to the launchpad, he literally jumped for joy in his spacesuit. Emerging from the command module to conduct his crucial spacewalk, he...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. — 289 p. The moon landing of 1969 stands as an iconic moment for both the United States and humankind. The familiar story focuses on the journey of the brave astronauts, who brought home Moon rocks and startling photographs. But Apollo's full account includes the earthbound engineers, mounds of their crumpled paper, and smoldering metal...
University of Nebraska Press, 2010. — 516 p. — (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight). Following the fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11, as NASA prepares to return astronauts to the moon, Footprints in the Dust offers a thorough, engrossing, and multifaceted account of the Apollo missions. The flight of Apollo 11 was a triumph of human endeavor, persistence, and...
Publisher - Viking, Publication date - 1994. 713 p. Through the windows of the slowly turning spacecraft they looked out at the place where the sun had once been, and there was the moon: a huge, magnificent sphere bathed in the eerie blue light of earthshine, each crater rendered in ghostly detail. The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969. When...
Dover edition. — Dover Publications Inc., 2010. — 432 p. — (Dover Books on Astronomy). — ISBN: 978-0486478883. This official NASA history chronicles the behind-the-scenes conflicts and cooperation during the Apollo expeditions. It shows how the space agency's scientists, who were primarily interested in the moon itself, worked out their differences with the engineers, who were...
Washington: NASA History Division Office of External Relations, 2009. — 208 p. The F-1 mission was to provide seven and one-half million pounds of thrust for the Saturn V first stage. It was based on, except for size, pretty much the same technology being used for the ballistic missiles. Foreword Welcome Remarks Richard Gilbrech Steve Fisher Robert Biggs, Rocketdyne - F-1...
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019. — 480 p. — ISBN: 978-1-5011-0629-3. New York Times best-selling author of The Wal-Mart Effect Charles Fishman reveals the untold true story of the men and women charged with taking the United States to the moon. President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the US would land a man on the moon...
Washington: NASA, 1992. — 216 p. — (The NASA History Series). — ISBN 0-16-036174-5. On July 20, 1969 millions of television screens captured a new image in the iconography of American history. To the familar icons that stirred patriotic sentiment - the fiercely protective American eagle, the elegantly scripted parchment of the Declaration of Independence, the solemn countenance...
Chichester: Praxis Publishing, 2009. — 472 p. — ISBN: 0387681310. In 'Paving the Way for Apollo 11' David Harland explains the lure of the Moon to classical philosophers, astronomers, and geologists, and how NASA set out to investigate the Moon in preparation for a manned lunar landing mission. It focuses particularly on the Lunar Orbiter and Surveyor missions. David Harland...
NASA: 1966. — 43 p. The electronic flight control systems of a free-flight lunar-landing research vehicle have enabled the craft to provide meaningful research information on pilot-controlled landings in a pseudolunar environment. The lunar -gravitational environment is effectively simulated by an electronic system and is accurate during hover and translation maneuvers to...
Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2001. 417 p. — ISBN: 978-1-58834-273-7. Chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly gives a firsthand account of designing, building, testing, and flying the Apollo lunar module. It was, he writes, an aerospace engineer’s dream job of the century. Kelly’s account begins with the imaginative process of sketching solutions to a host of technical challenges with...
Cambridge, Mass: Massachusets Institute of Technology; Charles Stark Draper Labratory, 1971. — 76 p. This report records the technology associated with Apollo lunar-descent guidance. It contains an introduction plus five major sections: Braking-phase and approach-phase guidance. Braking-phase guidance begins in lunar orbit prior to engine ignition and transfers the lunar module...
Cambridge, Mass: Massachusets Institute of Technology; Charles Stark Draper Labratory, 1971. — 76 p. This report records the technology associated with Apollo lunar-descent guidance. It contains an introduction plus five major sections: Braking-phase and approach-phase guidance. Braking-phase guidance begins in lunar orbit prior to engine ignition and transfers the lunar module...
New York: Springer, 2018. — 404 p. Dedication The Nature of the Moon Early US Ventures into Space Early History of NASA Overview of the Ranger Project Launch of Ranger Spacecraft and Flight to the Moon Deep Space Tracking Network Block III Ranger Cameras for Block III Rangers Flight of the Rangers Flight of Ranger 6 Flight of Ranger 7 Flight of Ranger 8 Flight of Ranger 9...
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2008. — 374 p.
As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer's software nearly caused a mission abort. Neil Armstrong responded by switching off the automatic mode and taking direct control. He stopped monitoring the computer and began flying the spacecraft, relying on skill to...
NASA History Division Office of Policy and Plans, 2000. — 334 p. The purpose of this work is to provide researchers, students, and space enthusiasts with a comprehensive reference for facts about Project Apollo, America's effort to put humans in the Moon. Research for this work started in 1988, when the author discovered that, despite the number of excellent books that focused...
NASA History Division Office of Policy and Plans, 2000. — 334 p. Книга статистики программы пилотируемых космических полётов НАСА Аполлон. Содержит описание 11 полётов в рамках программы, иллюстрации, фотографии и около 51 статистической таблицы. The purpose of this work is to provide researchers, students, and space enthusiasts with a comprehensive reference for facts about...
Springer Praxis Publishing, 2006. — 633 p. — ISBN 10: 0-387-30043-0, ISBN 13: 978-0-387-30043-6. On 4 October 1957, to mark the International Geophysical Year, which ran from mid- 1957 to the end of 1958, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite, naming it ‘Sputnik’ for ‘fellow traveler’. The United States, which had expected this technological milestone...
Abrams Image, 2019. — 168 p. July 20, 1969, marked one of the greatest achievements of mankind--the moon landing. In his infographic-packed book, Apollo: A Graphic Guide to Mankind's Greatest Mission, Zack Scott recounts the entire journey of the Apollo space program. Unlike previous books on this topic, Scott illustrates the tiniest details of how man came to walk on the moon,...
Abrams Image, 2019. — 168 p. July 20, 1969, marked one of the greatest achievements of mankind--the moon landing. In his infographic-packed book, Apollo: A Graphic Guide to Mankind's Greatest Mission, Zack Scott recounts the entire journey of the Apollo space program. Unlike previous books on this topic, Scott illustrates the tiniest details of how man came to walk on the moon,...
Custom House, 2021. — 384 p. A "brilliantly observed" (Newsweek) and "endlessly fascinating" (WSJ) rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, revealing why these extraordinary yet overshadowed missions—distinguished by the use of the revolutionary lunar roving vehicle—deserve to be celebrated as the pinnacle of human adventure and exploration. 8:36 P.M. EST, December 12,...
Pen & Sword, 2024. — 210 p. — ISBN 978 1 39903 927 7. Пилотируемые и беспилотные полеты на Луну Manned and Unmanned Flights to the Moon Introduction Chapter One In the Beginning Chapter Two History and Development of the Rocket Chapter Three The Mercury Programme Chapter Seven Apollo Chapter Nine The First Men on the Moon Chapter Ten Skylab the Space Laboratory Chapter Eleven...
Springer, 2018. — 285 p. This book describes the history of this now iconic room which represents America’s space program during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and early Space Shuttle eras. It is now a National Historic Landmark and is being restored to a level which represents the day the flight control teams walked out after the last lunar landing missions. The book...
Springer in association with Praxis Publishing Ltd, 2008. — 412 p. "This is the tale of how Apollo flew to the Moon. Most of the book will take the reader through the various stages of the Apollo flights."
ГОНТИ-1, 1968. — 188 с. Программа «Аполлон», осуществляемая в Соединенных Штатах Америки, предусматривает высадку американских космонавтов на Луну с последующим возвращением на Землю. Руководство этой программой возложено на Национальное управление по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства (NASA). Предварительные и поисковые работы в рамках программы «Аполлон»...
ГОНТИ-1, 1968. — 188 с. Программа «Аполлон», осуществляемая в Соединенных Штатах Америки, предусматривает высадку американских космонавтов на Луну с последующим возвращением на Землю. Руководство этой программой возложено на Национальное управление по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства (NASA). Предварительные и поисковые работы в рамках программы «Аполлон»...
М.: Яуза; Эксмо, 2000. — 92 с. — ISBN 5-8153-0106-X.
В момент, когда представители человечества впервые в истории высаживались на Луну, мы смотрели по телевизору старую кинокомедию. Мои многочисленные полушутливые проверки показали, что наши люди, даже справедливо причисляющие себя к интеллектуальной элите – писатели, художники, музыканты, врачи, педагоги, – ничего не знают о...
Документальная повесть. — М.: Эксмо-Пресс; Яуза, 2000 — 352 с.: ил. — ISBN: 5–8153–0106–X — Сканированная копия, PDF, 2.9 Мб, распознанный текст, цветные и ч/б 8 бит иллюстрации. — Качество (субъективная оценка по 10-бальной шкале): 8. Сколько людей отпечатали свои следы в пыли лунных долин? Задайте этот вопрос вашим знакомым, и вы услышите в ответ двое… четверо… А было их 12!...
Документальная повесть. — М.: Эксмо-Пресс; Яуза, 2000 — 352 с.: ил. — ISBN: 5–8153–0106–X. Сколько людей отпечатали свои следы в пыли лунных долин? Задайте этот вопрос вашим знакомым, и вы услышите в ответ двое… четверо… А было их 12! А летало вокруг Луны 24! Ваши знакомые ошибаются потому, что это во многом политическое, но все-таки героическое, принципиальное в истории земной...
Документальная повесть. — М.: Эксмо-Пресс; Яуза, 2000 — 352 с.: ил. — ISBN: 5–8153–0106–X. Сколько людей отпечатали свои следы в пыли лунных долин? Задайте этот вопрос вашим знакомым, и вы услышите в ответ двое… четверо… А было их 12! А летало вокруг Луны 24! Ваши знакомые ошибаются потому, что это во многом политическое, но все-таки героическое, принципиальное в истории земной...
Документальная повесть. — М.: Эксмо-Пресс; Яуза, 2000 — 352 с.: ил. — ISBN: 5–8153–0106–X — Сканированная копия, DJVU, 6.2 Мб, изображение цв. (обложка и иллюстрации) + ч/б 8 бит (иллюстрации) + ч/б 2 бит (текст) + OCR-слой. — Качество (субъективная оценка по 10-бальной шкале): 8. Сколько людей отпечатали свои следы в пыли лунных долин? Задайте этот вопрос вашим знакомым, и вы...
ГОНТИ-1, 1971. — 505 с. В части II обзора «Программа «Аполлон» основное внимание уделяется задачам, расчетным программам и фактическому ходу пилотируемых полетов кораблей «Аполлон VII»... «Аполлон XIV», совершенных в тот период, который охватывается обзором. Кроме того, часть II обзора включает в себя новые и уточненные сведения о корабле «Аполлон», ракетах-носителях,...
ГОНТИ-1, 1971. — 505 с. В части II обзора «Программа «Аполлон» основное внимание уделяется задачам, расчетным программам и фактическому ходу пилотируемых полетов кораблей «Аполлон VII»... «Аполлон XIV», совершенных в тот период, который охватывается обзором. Кроме того, часть II обзора включает в себя новые и уточненные сведения о корабле «Аполлон», ракетах-носителях,...
Сборник материалов. — Кемерово: издатель Шубин П. C. , 2019. — 112 с.: ил. За программой «Аполлон» внимательно следили в СССР, и это отображено в документах той эпохи. Подобных материалов накопилось. немало, и они достаточно интересны для анализа. Это не все возможные материалы, что были в СССР по данной программе. Но подборка получилась весьма интересная. Документы в издании...
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