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Moon Shot: The Inside Story of the Apollo Project

The epic story of the golden years of American space exploration, told by the men who rode the rockets On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was born. Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975. They spent the 1960s at the forefront of NASA's effort to conquer space, and Moon Shot is their inside account of what many call the twentieth century's greatest feat—landing humans on another world.

published: 14 Apr 2014
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Time of Apollo 1975 NASA Project Apollo Moon Program Summary; Burgess Meredith

Project Apollo playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/ A 1975 summary of the entire Apollo moon landing program narrated by Burgess Meredith. NASA film HQ-229 Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module (LM) on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Command/Service Module (CSM), and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24. Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in December 1972. In these six spaceflights, twelve men walked on the Moon. Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, with the first manned flight in 1968. It achieved its goal of manned lunar landing, despite the major setback of a 1967 Apollo 1 cabin fire that killed the entire crew during a prelaunch test. After the first landing, sufficient flight hardware remained for nine follow-on landings with a plan for extended lunar geological and astrophysical exploration. Budget cuts forced the cancellation of three of these. Five of the remaining six missions achieved successful landings, but the Apollo 13 landing was prevented by an oxygen tank explosion in transit to the Moon, which damaged the CSM's propulsion and life support. The crew returned to Earth safely by using the Lunar Module as a "lifeboat" for these functions. It used Saturn family rockets as launch vehicles, which were also used for an Apollo Applications Program, which consisted of Skylab, a space station that supported three manned missions in 1973–74, and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, a joint Earth orbit mission with the Soviet Union in 1975. Apollo set several major human spaceflight milestones. It stands alone in sending manned missions beyond low Earth orbit. Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to orbit another celestial body, while the final Apollo 17 mission marked the sixth Moon landing and the ninth manned mission beyond low Earth orbit. The program returned 842 pounds (382 kg) of lunar rocks and soil to Earth, greatly contributing to the understanding of the Moon's composition and geological history. The program laid the foundation for NASA's current human spaceflight capability, and funded construction of its Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center. Apollo also spurred advances in many areas of technology incidental to rocketry and manned spaceflight, including avionics, telecommunications, and computers... NASA, Apollo, moon landing, lunar landing, space program, moon program, Lunar Module, LM, CM, CSM, Apollo 11, Apollo 17, Saturn V, Saturn IB,

published: 19 Aug 2016
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Project Apollo - Manned Flight To The Moon - 1963 NASA Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42

This NASA documentary from the early 1960's explains the steps that would need to be taken to place men on the moon and return them safely to earth, a feat first completed in 1969 during the Apollo 11 mission. The film opens with footage from early Project Mercury launches, then uses animation to explain the design concepts and features of the Saturn rockets, Apollo Command Module and Lunar Landing Module. In 2014 NASA celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. Note: any comments stating the moon landings were a hoax may be removed and user blocked. WDTVLIVE42 - Transport, technology, NASA and general interest movies from the past - newsreels, documentaries & publicity films from my archives. #Space

published: 20 Mar 2013
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Launch Windows For Lunar Landing 1968 NASA JSC Project Apollo Mission Planning

more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Explains factors that determined launch windows for Project Apollo lunar landing missions, including lighting angles on the moon, planes of motion, available fuel, etc. NASA film JSC-336 from the Manned Spacecrat Center (Johnson Space Center) Mission Planning and Analysis Division. Reupload of a previously uploaded film with more improved sound and video. Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). PROJECT APOLLO PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_window In the context of spaceflight, a launch window is a time period during which a particular vehicle (rocket, Space Shuttle, etc.) must be launched in order to reach its intended target. If the rocket is not launched within the "window", it has to wait for the next window. For trips into largely arbitrary Earth orbits, any time will do. But if the spacecraft intends to rendezvous with a space station (such as the International Space Station) or another vehicle already in an orbit, the launch must be carefully timed to occur around the times that the target vehicle's orbital plane intersects the launch site. Earth observation satellites are often launched into sun-synchronous orbits which are near-polar. For these orbits, the launch window occurs at the time of day when the launch site location is aligned with the plane of the required orbit. To launch at another time would require an orbital plane change manoeuvre which would require a large amount of propellant. For launches above low Earth orbit (LEO), the actual launch time can be somewhat flexible if a parking orbit is used, because the inclination and time the spacecraft initially spends in the parking orbit can be varied... To go to another planet using the simple low-energy Hohmann transfer orbit, if eccentricity of orbits is not a factor, launch windows are periodic according to the synodic period; for example, in the case of Mars, the period is 2.135 years, (780 days). In more complex cases, including the use of gravitational slingshots, launch windows are irregular. Sometimes, rare opportunities arise, such as when Voyager 2 took advantage of a 175-year planetary alignment (launch window) to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. When such an opportunity is missed, another target may be selected. For example, the ESA's Rosetta mission was originally intended for comet 46P/Wirtanen, but a launcher problem delayed it and a new target had to be selected (comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko). Launch windows are often calculated from porkchop plots, which show the delta-v needed to achieve the mission plotted against the launch time. Specific issues Space Shuttle missions to the International Space Station were restricted by beta angle cutout. Beta angle (\beta) is defined as the angle between the orbit plane and the vector from the Sun. Due to the relationship between an orbiting object's beta angle (in this case, the ISS) and the percent of its orbit that is spent in sunlight, solar power generation and thermal control are affected by that beta angle. Shuttle launches to the ISS were normally only attempted when the ISS was in an orbit with a beta angle of less than 60 degrees.

published: 18 Sep 2015
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The Flight of Apollo 7 1968 NASA First Manned Project Apollo Spaceflight

more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reupload of a previously uploaded film with more improved sound and video. "Records life and work on the first manned flight of the Apollo series. Apollo 7 was designated to make the essential test of the Apollo spacecraft before the ambitious lunar-orbital mission could be attempted. All systems respond perfectly. The first television from space highlights the film." NASA film JSC-498 Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_7 Apollo 7 was the first manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, and the first manned US space flight after a cabin fire killed the crew of what was to have been the first manned mission, AS-204 (later renamed Apollo 1), during a launch pad test in 1967. It was a C type mission—an 11-day Earth-orbital mission, the first manned launch of the Saturn IB launch vehicle, and the first three-person US space mission. The crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with Command Module Pilot Donn F. Eisele, and Lunar Module Pilot R. Walter Cunningham. The mission was the first manned test of the redesigned Block II Apollo Command/Service Module. It flew in Earth orbit so the crew could check life-support, propulsion, and control systems. Despite tension between the crew and ground controllers, the mission was a technical success, which gave NASA the confidence to launch Apollo 8 around the Moon two months later. However, the flight would prove to be the last space flight for all of its three crew members. It was also the final manned launch from what was then known as Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida ... Mission highlights Apollo 7 was a test flight, and confidence-builder. After the January 1967 Apollo launch pad fire, the Apollo Command Module had been extensively redesigned. Schirra, who would be the only astronaut to fly Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, commanded this Earth-orbital shakedown of the Command and Service Modules. Since it was not carrying a Lunar Module and only needed to reach a low earth orbit, Apollo 7 could be launched with the Saturn IB booster rather than the much larger and more powerful Saturn V. Schirra wanted to name the Apollo 7 Command module "Phoenix" (the mythical bird rising from its own ashes) in memory of the late Apollo 1 crew, but NASA management rejected the idea... The Apollo hardware and all mission operations worked without any significant problems, and the Service Propulsion System (SPS), the all-important engine that would place Apollo into and out of lunar orbit, made eight nearly perfect firings. Even though Apollo's larger cabin was more comfortable than Gemini's, 11 days in orbit took its toll on the astronauts. Tension with Schirra began with the launch decision, when flight managers decided to launch with a less than ideal abort option for the early part of the ascent. Once in orbit, the spacious cabin may have induced some crew motion sickness, which had not been an issue in the earlier, smaller spacecraft. The crew was also unhappy with their food selections. But the worst problem occurred when Schirra developed a severe head cold. As a result, he became irritable with requests from Mission Control and all three astronauts began "talking back" to the Capcom... Exchanges such as this led to all three Apollo 7 crew members being rejected for future missions. Despite these difficulties, the mission successfully met its objective of verifying manned flight capability of the Apollo Command and Service Modules, allowing the flight of Apollo 8 to the Moon just two months later. Beyond a shakedown of the spacecraft, goals for the mission included the first live television broadcast from an American spacecraft (Gordon Cooper had broadcast slow scan television pictures from Faith 7 in 1963) and testing the mock LM docking maneuver which involved rendezvous with the launch vehicle's discarded upper stage (referred to by Schirra in the above conversation.) The splashdown point was 27 deg 32 min N, 64 deg 04 min W, 200 nautical miles (370 km) SSW of Bermuda and 7 nmi (13 km) north of the recovery ship USS Essex. Apollo 7 was the only manned Apollo launch to take place from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station's Launch Complex 34. All subsequent Apollo and Skylab missions (including Apollo-Soyuz) were launched from Launch Complex 39 at the nearby Kennedy Space Center, and Launch Complex 34 was retired. As of 2012, Cunningham is the only surviving member of the crew. Eisele died in 1987 and Schirra in 2007...

published: 04 Oct 2015
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Apollo 10: To Sort Out the Unknowns 1969 NASA Project Apollo Moon Landing Rehearsal Flight

more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved sound and video, and all in one piece instead of parts. "Astronauts: Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young, and Eugene A. Cernan Launch date: May 18, 1969 Records the accomplishment of the basic mission of Apollo 10 - to uncover and solve the few remaining problems before lunar landing. The Lunar Module descends to within 50,000 feet of the Moon. Includes photography of the Moon from high and low orbits." NASA film JSC-519 Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and 1-pass exposure & color correction applied (cannot be ideal in all scenes). The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). PROJECT APOLLO PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10 Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program. It was an F type mission—its purpose was to be a "dry run" for the Apollo 11 mission, testing all of the procedures and components of a Moon landing without actually landing on the Moon itself. The mission included the second crew to orbit the Moon and an all-up test of the lunar module (LM) in lunar orbit. The LM came to within 8.4 nautical miles (15.6 km) of the lunar surface during practice maneuvers. According to the 2002 Guinness World Records, Apollo 10 set the record for the highest speed attained by a manned vehicle at 39,897 km/h (11.08 km/s or 24,791 mph) during the return from the Moon on May 26, 1969. Due to the use of their names as call signs, the Peanuts characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy became semi-official mascots for the mission. Peanuts creator Charles Schulz also drew some special mission-related artwork for NASA... Mission highlights This dress rehearsal for a Moon landing brought Stafford and Cernan's lunar module Snoopy to 8.4 nautical miles (15.6 km) from the lunar surface. The low approach orbit was to refine the lunar gravitational potential needed to calibrate the powered descent guidance system to within 1-nautical-mile (1.9 km) (LR altitude update lock) needed for a landing. Earth-based observations, unmanned spacecraft, and Apollo 8 respectively had allowed calibration to 200 nautical miles (370 km), 20 nautical miles (37 km), and 5 nautical miles (9.3 km). Except for that final stretch, the mission went exactly as a landing would have gone, both in space and on the ground, putting Apollo's extensive tracking and control network through a dry run. Shortly after leaving low Earth orbit, the command/service module separated from the S-IVB stage, turned around, and docked its nose to the top of the lunar module still nestled in the S-IVB. The CSM/LM stack then separated from the S-IVB for the trip to the Moon. Apollo 10 was the first to carry a color television camera inside the spacecraft, and made the first live color TV broadcasts from space. Upon reaching lunar orbit, Young remained alone in the command module Charlie Brown while Stafford and Cernan flew separately in the LM. The LM crew checked out their craft's radar and ascent engine, rode out a momentary gyration in the lunar lander's motion (due to a faulty switch setting), and surveyed the Apollo 11 landing site in the Sea of Tranquility. NASA took special precaution to ensure Stafford and Cernan would not attempt to make the first landing. According to Cernan, "A lot of people thought about the kind of people we were: 'Don't give those guys an opportunity to land, 'cause they might!' So the ascent module, the part we lifted off the lunar surface with, was short-fueled. The fuel tanks weren't full. So had we literally tried to land on the Moon, we couldn't have gotten off." The fueled Apollo 10 LM weighed 30,735 pounds (13,941 kg), compared to 33,278 pounds (15,095 kg) for the Apollo 11 LM which made the first landing. Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean on May 26, 1969 at 16:52:23 UTC, approximately 400 nautical miles (740 km) east of American Samoa. The astronauts were recovered by the USS Princeton, and subsequently flown to Pago Pago International Airport in Tafuna for a greeting reception, before being flown on a C-141 cargo plane to Honolulu. Hardware disposition The LM Snoopy's descent stage was left in orbit, but eventually crashed onto the lunar surface because of the Moon's non-uniform gravitational field; its location was not tracked. After being jettisoned, Snoopy's ascent stage flew on a trajectory past the Moon into a heliocentric orbit, making it the sole intact Lunar Module ascent stage remaining of the 10 LMs sent into space... The Command Module Charlie Brown is currently on loan to the Science Museum in London...

published: 28 Sep 2012
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Project Apollo NASSP 7.0 Beta - LVDC++ Launch and Mode III SPS Abort

Project Apollo - NASSP (also known as NASSP or NCPP) is an add-on for the Orbiter space flight simulator. Project Apollo simulates the Apollo missions to Earth orbit and the Moon, and is slowly expanding to simulate planned post-Apollo missions that never flew. Project Apollo features a near-full implementation of the control panels in the Command Module and Lunar Module, and an increasingly accurate simulation of the internal systems (e.g. electrical distribution, fuel cells). Also the Virtual AGC software is supported, which allows you to run precisely the same on-board guidance software as used by the real Apollo Guidance Computer. This video shows the launch of Apollo 8 with the currently being developed simulation of the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC++) and a Mode III Abort at 11:00 GET. From the "Operational Abort Plan For The Apollo 8 Mission": The mode III abort procedures are required for contingencies that occur beyond mode II (R greater than 3200 n. mi.) when a safe orbit cannot be achieved or when SC systems malfunctions dictate immediate landings. The first mode III requirement is unlikely because of the large COI region and because the LV cutoff conditions would have to be greatly dispersed from the nominal launch trajectory. The second requirement is unlikely because if such a malfunction had occurred during launch the abort would more probably be initiated before mode III was entered, and failures that occur after mode III is entered would be almost impossible to confirm in sufficient time to recommend a mode III abort. Mode III abort capability begins at the end of mode II when the full-lift landing range exceeds 3200 n.mi. (600 seconds g.e.t.). Since mode III entries are half lift (RL55) and the SPS retrograde burn is only required to achieve a landing range of 3350 n.mi., there exists a period (between 600 and 624 seconds g.e.t.) for which the no-burn landing would land west of the 3350-n.mi. landing target (ADRA). The mode III capability ends once the required SPS burn violates the 100-second tff [time to 300k feet] constraint. This occurs approximately 2 seconds prior to the S-IVB cutoff signal and suborbital aborts required after that time would require terminating the burn on tff = 100 seconds and then a zero lift (RL90) entry to avoid a land landing. Checklist for Mode III Abort: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/ap15fj/csmlc/4-04.gif http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/ap15fj/csmlc/4-05.gif Orbiter Downloads: Orbiter 2010: http://orbitersimulator.com/orbiter-2010-downloads/ Orbiter DX9 Graphics Upgrade: http://d3d9client.codeplex.com/ Orbiter Sound 4.0: http://orbiter.dansteph.com/forum/index.php?page=download Project Apollo - NASSP: http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page NASSP development snapshots: https://github.com/dseagrav/NASSP/releases

published: 21 Nov 2015
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Project Apollo Mission Planning: "Fly Me to the Moon--And Back" 1966 NASA MPAD

NEW VERSION with more improved video & sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp75tsE1XuI more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html The work of the NASA Houston Manned Spacecraft Center 's Mission Planning and Analysis Division for Project Apollo. "Explains the complexity of planning a lunar mission trajectory. Includes mission analysis, new mathematical techniques, hybrid computers, mission operational plan, and real-time support for the NASA JSC's Mission Operations Control Room." NASA film JSC-315 Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved sound and video, and all in one piece instead of parts. Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and 1-pass exposure & color correction applied (cannot be ideal in all scenes). The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). PROJECT APOLLO PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Task_Group The Space Task Group was a working group of NASA engineers created in 1958, tasked with superintending America's manned spaceflight programs. It was headed by Robert Gilruth and based at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. After President John F. Kennedy set the goal of the Apollo Program to land men on the Moon in 1961, NASA decided a much larger organization and a new facility was required to perform the Task Group's function, and it was transformed into the Manned Spacecraft Center (now the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center), located in Houston, Texas ... History Created on November 5, 1958, the Space Task Group was headed by Robert Gilruth. Originally it consisted of 45 people, including eight secretaries and "computers" (the term for women who ran calculations on mechanical adding machines). Of its 37 engineers, 27 were from Langley Research Center and ten had been assigned from Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Original members of the group included Charles Donlan, Gilruth's deputy; Max Faget, head of engineering; Chuck Mathews, head of flight operations; Chris Kraft, also in flight operations; and Glynn Lunney, who at 21 was the youngest member of the group. The head of the public affairs office was John "Shorty" Powers. In 1959, the group was expanded by the addition of 32 engineers from Canada, who had been left without jobs when the Avro Arrow project was cancelled. These new additions, Canadians and some British, included Jim Chamberlin, George Harris, John Hodge, Owen Maynard, Bryan Erb, Rodney Rose and Tecwyn Roberts. After President John F. Kennedy set the national goal on May 25, 1961 of landing men on the Moon by the end of the 1960s, it became clear to NASA administrator James E. Webb that Gilruth would need a much larger organization and facilities, in fact a new dedicated NASA center, to administrate US manned space programs. Webb got the approval of Kennedy and the Congress, and in August 1961 appointed a team to select a site for the new center. On September 19, Webb announced the new Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) would be built on a Houston, Texas site donated by Rice University. Gilruth immediately began the transition of his Task Group into the new MSC, planning his increased staff organization and its move to Houston, using temporary leased office and test facility space on 12 sites while the new facility was being built. By September 1962, his organization was moved to Houston and construction had begun, effectively marking the end of the Task Group. The MSC facility was completed in September 1963... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson_Space_Center ...Construction of the center, designed by Charles Luckman, began in April 1962, and Gilruth's new organization was formed and moved to the temporary locations by September. That month, Kennedy gave a speech at Rice University on the US space program. The speech is famous for highlighting the Apollo program, but Kennedy also made reference to the new Center... The 1,620-acre (6.6 km2) facility was officially opened for business in September 1963. The facility was to be the primary flight control center for all subsequent U.S. manned space missions from Project Gemini forward. The MSC's Mission Control Center first became operational for the flight of Gemini 4 in June 1965. In addition to housing NASA's astronaut operations, JSC is also the site of the former Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where the first astronauts returning from the moon were quarantined, and where the majority of lunar samples are stored. The center's Landing and Recovery Division operated MV Retriever in the Gulf of Mexico for Gemini and Apollo astronauts to practice water egress after splashdown...

published: 20 Sep 2012
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Project Apollo: "Lunar Orbit Rendezvous" 1968 NASA Mission Planning and Analysis Division

NEW VERSION with more improved video & sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB7AA7B9hTI more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved sound and video, and all in one piece instead of parts. "Discusses the groundwork conducted by the NASA JSC's Mission Planning and Analysis Division in perfecting lunar rendezvous techniques. Normal, as well as abort, rendezvous situations are demonstrated." NASA film JSC-344 Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). PROJECT APOLLO PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html On July 11, 1962 NASA announced that the Lunar Orbit Rendezvous mode would be used the manned lunar landing mission... The Lunar Orbit Rendezvous mode for lunar landing missions had been first suggested within NASA and the US aerospace industry in 1960... Dr. John C. Houbolt, assistant chief of the Dynamic Loads Division at Langley Research Center, was the leading expert on rendezvous in space. In early 1960, Houbolt realized the advantages of Lunar Orbit Rendezvous, and thereafter became its principle advocate. But convincing others at NASA that LOR was the best way to go would take almost two and a half years. To begin with, most engineers felt that any scheme involving rendezvous was too complicated and risky; therefore they preferred "direct ascent" plans which would required at least a Saturn C-8 (with a 12 million pounds thrust 1st stage, 8 F-1 engines) or an even larger "Nova" class launch vehicle. ...it gradually became obvious that the enormous rocket required to accomplish a direct ascent mission could not possibly be available in time. So the majority of engineers changed their preference to an Earth Orbit Rendezvous (EOR) plan... Both direct ascent and EOR presented difficulties in spacecraft design: 1. For one vehicle to make the trip, land on the moon, return to Earth, and a portion of it reenter the Earth's atmosphere would have required a far larger spacecraft than the eventual Apollo CSM and LM combined. The fuel for the return to Earth, and the reentry capsule, would have to be carried to the lunar surface and back up to orbit. This much larger, heavier spacecraft would be far more difficult to land on the moon than a smaller, lighter one would be. 2. The shape of such a dual-purpose craft was troublesome. Pilots need to see where they are going. How could a single craft be designed which would allow the pilots to look down at the lunar surface, while allowing them to recline facing upward during ascent to Earth orbit and, later, while reentering the Earth's atmosphere? Solutions were suggested, but none were satisfactory. Enchanted Rendezvous: John C. Houbolt and... Lunar Orbit Rendezvous..., Monograph 4 (1995) For these reasons, by late 1961, engineers at the Manned Spacecraft Center had begun to support Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. And by the spring of 1962 some key officials at NASA Headquarters in Washington were also sold on LOR. However, unanimity was desired, and the Saturn launch vehicle design engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama, led by Wernher von Braun, still preferred Earth Orbit Rendezvous. In mid May, Joseph F. Shea, Deputy Director of the Office of Manned Space Flight, informed Von Braun that it was likely that LOR was going to be selected. This would likely result in less work for Von Braun's Marshall Space Flight Center, but, according to Shea, Von Braun was assured that efforts would be made to give MSFC more work. The turning point came on June 7, 1962, when, after 6 hours of MSFC engineers presenting their case for EOR to Shea, Von Braun surprised his own "rocket team" by declaring that they now preferred Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. Von Braun said: "...It is absolutely mandatory that we arrive at a definite mode decision within the next few weeks, preferably by the first of July, 1962... If we do not make a clear-cut decision on the mode very soon, our chances of accomplishing the first lunar landing expedition in this decade will fade away rapidly... "We believe [Lunar Orbit Rendezvous] offers the highest confidence factor of successful accomplishment within this decade... We agree with the Manned Spacecraft Center that the designs of a maneuverable hyperbolic re-entry vehicle and of a lunar landing vehicle constitute the two most critical tasks in producing a successful lunar spacecraft. A drastic separation of these two functions is bound to greatly simplify the development of the spacecraft system."

published: 26 Sep 2012
views: 21786

NASA's Classified Mercury, Gemini, Apollo Missions (1080p, 60fps)

This NASA technology video is structured to show the developments of all three NASA programs (Mercury, Gemini, Apollo) that lead the United States to the physical exploration of the Moon, which began when Luna 2, a space probe launched by the Soviet Union, made an impact on the surface of the Moon on September 14, 1959. Prior to that the only available means of exploration had been observation from Earth. The invention of the optical telescope brought about the first leap in the quality of lunar observations. Galileo Galilei is generally credited as the first person to use a telescope for astronomical purposes; having made his own telescope in 1609, the mountains and craters on the lunar surface were among his first observations using it. NASA's Apollo program was the first, and to date only, mission to successfully land humans on the Moon. The first landing took place in 1969, when astronauts placed scientific instruments and returned lunar samples to Earth. To learn more on NASA's exploration of the moon online, goto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_the_Moon FOLLOW on: https://www.facebook.com/documentarytube.net https://twitter.com/DocArchive THE LOST ARCHIVES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1DCxbhUP-M&list;=PLCIsViWU6sLnbOl2yVaWRzADY-c06z4UA

published: 19 Dec 2014
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Moon Shot: The Inside Story of the Apollo Project

Moon Shot: The Inside Story of the Apollo Project

Moon Shot: The Inside Story of the Apollo Project
The epic story of the golden years of American space exploration, told by the men who rode the rockets On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was born. Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975. They spent the 1960s at the forefront of NASA's effort to conquer space, and Moon Shot is their inside account of what many call the twentieth century's greatest feat—landing humans on another world.
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Time of Apollo 1975 NASA Project Apollo Moon Program Summary; Burgess Meredith

Time of Apollo 1975 NASA Project Apollo Moon Program Summary; Burgess Meredith

Time of Apollo 1975 NASA Project Apollo Moon Program Summary; Burgess Meredith
Project Apollo playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/ A 1975 summary of the entire Apollo moon landing program narrated by Burgess Meredith. NASA film HQ-229 Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module (LM) on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Command/Service Module (CSM), and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24. Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in December 1972. In these six spaceflights, twelve men walked on the Moon. Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, with the first manned flight in 1968. It achieved its goal of manned lunar landing, despite the major setback of a 1967 Apollo 1 cabin fire that killed the entire crew during a prelaunch test. After the first landing, sufficient flight hardware remained for nine follow-on landings with a plan for extended lunar geological and astrophysical exploration. Budget cuts forced the cancellation of three of these. Five of the remaining six missions achieved successful landings, but the Apollo 13 landing was prevented by an oxygen tank explosion in transit to the Moon, which damaged the CSM's propulsion and life support. The crew returned to Earth safely by using the Lunar Module as a "lifeboat" for these functions. It used Saturn family rockets as launch vehicles, which were also used for an Apollo Applications Program, which consisted of Skylab, a space station that supported three manned missions in 1973–74, and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, a joint Earth orbit mission with the Soviet Union in 1975. Apollo set several major human spaceflight milestones. It stands alone in sending manned missions beyond low Earth orbit. Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to orbit another celestial body, while the final Apollo 17 mission marked the sixth Moon landing and the ninth manned mission beyond low Earth orbit. The program returned 842 pounds (382 kg) of lunar rocks and soil to Earth, greatly contributing to the understanding of the Moon's composition and geological history. The program laid the foundation for NASA's current human spaceflight capability, and funded construction of its Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center. Apollo also spurred advances in many areas of technology incidental to rocketry and manned spaceflight, including avionics, telecommunications, and computers... NASA, Apollo, moon landing, lunar landing, space program, moon program, Lunar Module, LM, CM, CSM, Apollo 11, Apollo 17, Saturn V, Saturn IB,
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Project Apollo - Manned Flight To The Moon - 1963 NASA Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42

Project Apollo - Manned Flight To The Moon - 1963 NASA Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42

Project Apollo - Manned Flight To The Moon - 1963 NASA Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42
This NASA documentary from the early 1960's explains the steps that would need to be taken to place men on the moon and return them safely to earth, a feat first completed in 1969 during the Apollo 11 mission. The film opens with footage from early Project Mercury launches, then uses animation to explain the design concepts and features of the Saturn rockets, Apollo Command Module and Lunar Landing Module. In 2014 NASA celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. Note: any comments stating the moon landings were a hoax may be removed and user blocked. WDTVLIVE42 - Transport, technology, NASA and general interest movies from the past - newsreels, documentaries & publicity films from my archives. #Space
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Launch Windows For Lunar Landing 1968 NASA JSC Project Apollo Mission Planning

Launch Windows For Lunar Landing 1968 NASA JSC Project Apollo Mission Planning

Launch Windows For Lunar Landing 1968 NASA JSC Project Apollo Mission Planning
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Explains factors that determined launch windows for Project Apollo lunar landing missions, including lighting angles on the moon, planes of motion, available fuel, etc. NASA film JSC-336 from the Manned Spacecrat Center (Johnson Space Center) Mission Planning and Analysis Division. Reupload of a previously uploaded film with more improved sound and video. Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). PROJECT APOLLO PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_window In the context of spaceflight, a launch window is a time period during which a particular vehicle (rocket, Space Shuttle, etc.) must be launched in order to reach its intended target. If the rocket is not launched within the "window", it has to wait for the next window. For trips into largely arbitrary Earth orbits, any time will do. But if the spacecraft intends to rendezvous with a space station (such as the International Space Station) or another vehicle already in an orbit, the launch must be carefully timed to occur around the times that the target vehicle's orbital plane intersects the launch site. Earth observation satellites are often launched into sun-synchronous orbits which are near-polar. For these orbits, the launch window occurs at the time of day when the launch site location is aligned with the plane of the required orbit. To launch at another time would require an orbital plane change manoeuvre which would require a large amount of propellant. For launches above low Earth orbit (LEO), the actual launch time can be somewhat flexible if a parking orbit is used, because the inclination and time the spacecraft initially spends in the parking orbit can be varied... To go to another planet using the simple low-energy Hohmann transfer orbit, if eccentricity of orbits is not a factor, launch windows are periodic according to the synodic period; for example, in the case of Mars, the period is 2.135 years, (780 days). In more complex cases, including the use of gravitational slingshots, launch windows are irregular. Sometimes, rare opportunities arise, such as when Voyager 2 took advantage of a 175-year planetary alignment (launch window) to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. When such an opportunity is missed, another target may be selected. For example, the ESA's Rosetta mission was originally intended for comet 46P/Wirtanen, but a launcher problem delayed it and a new target had to be selected (comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko). Launch windows are often calculated from porkchop plots, which show the delta-v needed to achieve the mission plotted against the launch time. Specific issues Space Shuttle missions to the International Space Station were restricted by beta angle cutout. Beta angle (\beta) is defined as the angle between the orbit plane and the vector from the Sun. Due to the relationship between an orbiting object's beta angle (in this case, the ISS) and the percent of its orbit that is spent in sunlight, solar power generation and thermal control are affected by that beta angle. Shuttle launches to the ISS were normally only attempted when the ISS was in an orbit with a beta angle of less than 60 degrees.
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The Flight of Apollo 7 1968 NASA First Manned Project Apollo Spaceflight

The Flight of Apollo 7 1968 NASA First Manned Project Apollo Spaceflight

The Flight of Apollo 7 1968 NASA First Manned Project Apollo Spaceflight
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reupload of a previously uploaded film with more improved sound and video. "Records life and work on the first manned flight of the Apollo series. Apollo 7 was designated to make the essential test of the Apollo spacecraft before the ambitious lunar-orbital mission could be attempted. All systems respond perfectly. The first television from space highlights the film." NASA film JSC-498 Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_7 Apollo 7 was the first manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, and the first manned US space flight after a cabin fire killed the crew of what was to have been the first manned mission, AS-204 (later renamed Apollo 1), during a launch pad test in 1967. It was a C type mission—an 11-day Earth-orbital mission, the first manned launch of the Saturn IB launch vehicle, and the first three-person US space mission. The crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with Command Module Pilot Donn F. Eisele, and Lunar Module Pilot R. Walter Cunningham. The mission was the first manned test of the redesigned Block II Apollo Command/Service Module. It flew in Earth orbit so the crew could check life-support, propulsion, and control systems. Despite tension between the crew and ground controllers, the mission was a technical success, which gave NASA the confidence to launch Apollo 8 around the Moon two months later. However, the flight would prove to be the last space flight for all of its three crew members. It was also the final manned launch from what was then known as Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida ... Mission highlights Apollo 7 was a test flight, and confidence-builder. After the January 1967 Apollo launch pad fire, the Apollo Command Module had been extensively redesigned. Schirra, who would be the only astronaut to fly Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, commanded this Earth-orbital shakedown of the Command and Service Modules. Since it was not carrying a Lunar Module and only needed to reach a low earth orbit, Apollo 7 could be launched with the Saturn IB booster rather than the much larger and more powerful Saturn V. Schirra wanted to name the Apollo 7 Command module "Phoenix" (the mythical bird rising from its own ashes) in memory of the late Apollo 1 crew, but NASA management rejected the idea... The Apollo hardware and all mission operations worked without any significant problems, and the Service Propulsion System (SPS), the all-important engine that would place Apollo into and out of lunar orbit, made eight nearly perfect firings. Even though Apollo's larger cabin was more comfortable than Gemini's, 11 days in orbit took its toll on the astronauts. Tension with Schirra began with the launch decision, when flight managers decided to launch with a less than ideal abort option for the early part of the ascent. Once in orbit, the spacious cabin may have induced some crew motion sickness, which had not been an issue in the earlier, smaller spacecraft. The crew was also unhappy with their food selections. But the worst problem occurred when Schirra developed a severe head cold. As a result, he became irritable with requests from Mission Control and all three astronauts began "talking back" to the Capcom... Exchanges such as this led to all three Apollo 7 crew members being rejected for future missions. Despite these difficulties, the mission successfully met its objective of verifying manned flight capability of the Apollo Command and Service Modules, allowing the flight of Apollo 8 to the Moon just two months later. Beyond a shakedown of the spacecraft, goals for the mission included the first live television broadcast from an American spacecraft (Gordon Cooper had broadcast slow scan television pictures from Faith 7 in 1963) and testing the mock LM docking maneuver which involved rendezvous with the launch vehicle's discarded upper stage (referred to by Schirra in the above conversation.) The splashdown point was 27 deg 32 min N, 64 deg 04 min W, 200 nautical miles (370 km) SSW of Bermuda and 7 nmi (13 km) north of the recovery ship USS Essex. Apollo 7 was the only manned Apollo launch to take place from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station's Launch Complex 34. All subsequent Apollo and Skylab missions (including Apollo-Soyuz) were launched from Launch Complex 39 at the nearby Kennedy Space Center, and Launch Complex 34 was retired. As of 2012, Cunningham is the only surviving member of the crew. Eisele died in 1987 and Schirra in 2007...
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Apollo 10: To Sort Out the Unknowns 1969 NASA Project Apollo Moon Landing Rehearsal Flight

Apollo 10: To Sort Out the Unknowns 1969 NASA Project Apollo Moon Landing Rehearsal Flight

Apollo 10: To Sort Out the Unknowns 1969 NASA Project Apollo Moon Landing Rehearsal Flight
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved sound and video, and all in one piece instead of parts. "Astronauts: Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young, and Eugene A. Cernan Launch date: May 18, 1969 Records the accomplishment of the basic mission of Apollo 10 - to uncover and solve the few remaining problems before lunar landing. The Lunar Module descends to within 50,000 feet of the Moon. Includes photography of the Moon from high and low orbits." NASA film JSC-519 Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and 1-pass exposure & color correction applied (cannot be ideal in all scenes). The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). PROJECT APOLLO PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10 Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program. It was an F type mission—its purpose was to be a "dry run" for the Apollo 11 mission, testing all of the procedures and components of a Moon landing without actually landing on the Moon itself. The mission included the second crew to orbit the Moon and an all-up test of the lunar module (LM) in lunar orbit. The LM came to within 8.4 nautical miles (15.6 km) of the lunar surface during practice maneuvers. According to the 2002 Guinness World Records, Apollo 10 set the record for the highest speed attained by a manned vehicle at 39,897 km/h (11.08 km/s or 24,791 mph) during the return from the Moon on May 26, 1969. Due to the use of their names as call signs, the Peanuts characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy became semi-official mascots for the mission. Peanuts creator Charles Schulz also drew some special mission-related artwork for NASA... Mission highlights This dress rehearsal for a Moon landing brought Stafford and Cernan's lunar module Snoopy to 8.4 nautical miles (15.6 km) from the lunar surface. The low approach orbit was to refine the lunar gravitational potential needed to calibrate the powered descent guidance system to within 1-nautical-mile (1.9 km) (LR altitude update lock) needed for a landing. Earth-based observations, unmanned spacecraft, and Apollo 8 respectively had allowed calibration to 200 nautical miles (370 km), 20 nautical miles (37 km), and 5 nautical miles (9.3 km). Except for that final stretch, the mission went exactly as a landing would have gone, both in space and on the ground, putting Apollo's extensive tracking and control network through a dry run. Shortly after leaving low Earth orbit, the command/service module separated from the S-IVB stage, turned around, and docked its nose to the top of the lunar module still nestled in the S-IVB. The CSM/LM stack then separated from the S-IVB for the trip to the Moon. Apollo 10 was the first to carry a color television camera inside the spacecraft, and made the first live color TV broadcasts from space. Upon reaching lunar orbit, Young remained alone in the command module Charlie Brown while Stafford and Cernan flew separately in the LM. The LM crew checked out their craft's radar and ascent engine, rode out a momentary gyration in the lunar lander's motion (due to a faulty switch setting), and surveyed the Apollo 11 landing site in the Sea of Tranquility. NASA took special precaution to ensure Stafford and Cernan would not attempt to make the first landing. According to Cernan, "A lot of people thought about the kind of people we were: 'Don't give those guys an opportunity to land, 'cause they might!' So the ascent module, the part we lifted off the lunar surface with, was short-fueled. The fuel tanks weren't full. So had we literally tried to land on the Moon, we couldn't have gotten off." The fueled Apollo 10 LM weighed 30,735 pounds (13,941 kg), compared to 33,278 pounds (15,095 kg) for the Apollo 11 LM which made the first landing. Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean on May 26, 1969 at 16:52:23 UTC, approximately 400 nautical miles (740 km) east of American Samoa. The astronauts were recovered by the USS Princeton, and subsequently flown to Pago Pago International Airport in Tafuna for a greeting reception, before being flown on a C-141 cargo plane to Honolulu. Hardware disposition The LM Snoopy's descent stage was left in orbit, but eventually crashed onto the lunar surface because of the Moon's non-uniform gravitational field; its location was not tracked. After being jettisoned, Snoopy's ascent stage flew on a trajectory past the Moon into a heliocentric orbit, making it the sole intact Lunar Module ascent stage remaining of the 10 LMs sent into space... The Command Module Charlie Brown is currently on loan to the Science Museum in London...
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Project Apollo NASSP 7.0 Beta - LVDC++ Launch and Mode III SPS Abort

Project Apollo NASSP 7.0 Beta - LVDC++ Launch and Mode III SPS Abort

Project Apollo NASSP 7.0 Beta - LVDC++ Launch and Mode III SPS Abort
Project Apollo - NASSP (also known as NASSP or NCPP) is an add-on for the Orbiter space flight simulator. Project Apollo simulates the Apollo missions to Earth orbit and the Moon, and is slowly expanding to simulate planned post-Apollo missions that never flew. Project Apollo features a near-full implementation of the control panels in the Command Module and Lunar Module, and an increasingly accurate simulation of the internal systems (e.g. electrical distribution, fuel cells). Also the Virtual AGC software is supported, which allows you to run precisely the same on-board guidance software as used by the real Apollo Guidance Computer. This video shows the launch of Apollo 8 with the currently being developed simulation of the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC++) and a Mode III Abort at 11:00 GET. From the "Operational Abort Plan For The Apollo 8 Mission": The mode III abort procedures are required for contingencies that occur beyond mode II (R greater than 3200 n. mi.) when a safe orbit cannot be achieved or when SC systems malfunctions dictate immediate landings. The first mode III requirement is unlikely because of the large COI region and because the LV cutoff conditions would have to be greatly dispersed from the nominal launch trajectory. The second requirement is unlikely because if such a malfunction had occurred during launch the abort would more probably be initiated before mode III was entered, and failures that occur after mode III is entered would be almost impossible to confirm in sufficient time to recommend a mode III abort. Mode III abort capability begins at the end of mode II when the full-lift landing range exceeds 3200 n.mi. (600 seconds g.e.t.). Since mode III entries are half lift (RL55) and the SPS retrograde burn is only required to achieve a landing range of 3350 n.mi., there exists a period (between 600 and 624 seconds g.e.t.) for which the no-burn landing would land west of the 3350-n.mi. landing target (ADRA). The mode III capability ends once the required SPS burn violates the 100-second tff [time to 300k feet] constraint. This occurs approximately 2 seconds prior to the S-IVB cutoff signal and suborbital aborts required after that time would require terminating the burn on tff = 100 seconds and then a zero lift (RL90) entry to avoid a land landing. Checklist for Mode III Abort: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/ap15fj/csmlc/4-04.gif http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/ap15fj/csmlc/4-05.gif Orbiter Downloads: Orbiter 2010: http://orbitersimulator.com/orbiter-2010-downloads/ Orbiter DX9 Graphics Upgrade: http://d3d9client.codeplex.com/ Orbiter Sound 4.0: http://orbiter.dansteph.com/forum/index.php?page=download Project Apollo - NASSP: http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page NASSP development snapshots: https://github.com/dseagrav/NASSP/releases
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Project Apollo Mission Planning: "Fly Me to the Moon--And Back" 1966 NASA MPAD

Project Apollo Mission Planning: "Fly Me to the Moon--And Back" 1966 NASA MPAD

Project Apollo Mission Planning: "Fly Me to the Moon--And Back" 1966 NASA MPAD
NEW VERSION with more improved video & sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp75tsE1XuI more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html The work of the NASA Houston Manned Spacecraft Center 's Mission Planning and Analysis Division for Project Apollo. "Explains the complexity of planning a lunar mission trajectory. Includes mission analysis, new mathematical techniques, hybrid computers, mission operational plan, and real-time support for the NASA JSC's Mission Operations Control Room." NASA film JSC-315 Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved sound and video, and all in one piece instead of parts. Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and 1-pass exposure & color correction applied (cannot be ideal in all scenes). The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). PROJECT APOLLO PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Task_Group The Space Task Group was a working group of NASA engineers created in 1958, tasked with superintending America's manned spaceflight programs. It was headed by Robert Gilruth and based at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. After President John F. Kennedy set the goal of the Apollo Program to land men on the Moon in 1961, NASA decided a much larger organization and a new facility was required to perform the Task Group's function, and it was transformed into the Manned Spacecraft Center (now the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center), located in Houston, Texas ... History Created on November 5, 1958, the Space Task Group was headed by Robert Gilruth. Originally it consisted of 45 people, including eight secretaries and "computers" (the term for women who ran calculations on mechanical adding machines). Of its 37 engineers, 27 were from Langley Research Center and ten had been assigned from Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Original members of the group included Charles Donlan, Gilruth's deputy; Max Faget, head of engineering; Chuck Mathews, head of flight operations; Chris Kraft, also in flight operations; and Glynn Lunney, who at 21 was the youngest member of the group. The head of the public affairs office was John "Shorty" Powers. In 1959, the group was expanded by the addition of 32 engineers from Canada, who had been left without jobs when the Avro Arrow project was cancelled. These new additions, Canadians and some British, included Jim Chamberlin, George Harris, John Hodge, Owen Maynard, Bryan Erb, Rodney Rose and Tecwyn Roberts. After President John F. Kennedy set the national goal on May 25, 1961 of landing men on the Moon by the end of the 1960s, it became clear to NASA administrator James E. Webb that Gilruth would need a much larger organization and facilities, in fact a new dedicated NASA center, to administrate US manned space programs. Webb got the approval of Kennedy and the Congress, and in August 1961 appointed a team to select a site for the new center. On September 19, Webb announced the new Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) would be built on a Houston, Texas site donated by Rice University. Gilruth immediately began the transition of his Task Group into the new MSC, planning his increased staff organization and its move to Houston, using temporary leased office and test facility space on 12 sites while the new facility was being built. By September 1962, his organization was moved to Houston and construction had begun, effectively marking the end of the Task Group. The MSC facility was completed in September 1963... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson_Space_Center ...Construction of the center, designed by Charles Luckman, began in April 1962, and Gilruth's new organization was formed and moved to the temporary locations by September. That month, Kennedy gave a speech at Rice University on the US space program. The speech is famous for highlighting the Apollo program, but Kennedy also made reference to the new Center... The 1,620-acre (6.6 km2) facility was officially opened for business in September 1963. The facility was to be the primary flight control center for all subsequent U.S. manned space missions from Project Gemini forward. The MSC's Mission Control Center first became operational for the flight of Gemini 4 in June 1965. In addition to housing NASA's astronaut operations, JSC is also the site of the former Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where the first astronauts returning from the moon were quarantined, and where the majority of lunar samples are stored. The center's Landing and Recovery Division operated MV Retriever in the Gulf of Mexico for Gemini and Apollo astronauts to practice water egress after splashdown...
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Project Apollo: "Lunar Orbit Rendezvous" 1968 NASA Mission Planning and Analysis Division

Project Apollo: "Lunar Orbit Rendezvous" 1968 NASA Mission Planning and Analysis Division

Project Apollo: "Lunar Orbit Rendezvous" 1968 NASA Mission Planning and Analysis Division
NEW VERSION with more improved video & sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB7AA7B9hTI more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved sound and video, and all in one piece instead of parts. "Discusses the groundwork conducted by the NASA JSC's Mission Planning and Analysis Division in perfecting lunar rendezvous techniques. Normal, as well as abort, rendezvous situations are demonstrated." NASA film JSC-344 Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). PROJECT APOLLO PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html On July 11, 1962 NASA announced that the Lunar Orbit Rendezvous mode would be used the manned lunar landing mission... The Lunar Orbit Rendezvous mode for lunar landing missions had been first suggested within NASA and the US aerospace industry in 1960... Dr. John C. Houbolt, assistant chief of the Dynamic Loads Division at Langley Research Center, was the leading expert on rendezvous in space. In early 1960, Houbolt realized the advantages of Lunar Orbit Rendezvous, and thereafter became its principle advocate. But convincing others at NASA that LOR was the best way to go would take almost two and a half years. To begin with, most engineers felt that any scheme involving rendezvous was too complicated and risky; therefore they preferred "direct ascent" plans which would required at least a Saturn C-8 (with a 12 million pounds thrust 1st stage, 8 F-1 engines) or an even larger "Nova" class launch vehicle. ...it gradually became obvious that the enormous rocket required to accomplish a direct ascent mission could not possibly be available in time. So the majority of engineers changed their preference to an Earth Orbit Rendezvous (EOR) plan... Both direct ascent and EOR presented difficulties in spacecraft design: 1. For one vehicle to make the trip, land on the moon, return to Earth, and a portion of it reenter the Earth's atmosphere would have required a far larger spacecraft than the eventual Apollo CSM and LM combined. The fuel for the return to Earth, and the reentry capsule, would have to be carried to the lunar surface and back up to orbit. This much larger, heavier spacecraft would be far more difficult to land on the moon than a smaller, lighter one would be. 2. The shape of such a dual-purpose craft was troublesome. Pilots need to see where they are going. How could a single craft be designed which would allow the pilots to look down at the lunar surface, while allowing them to recline facing upward during ascent to Earth orbit and, later, while reentering the Earth's atmosphere? Solutions were suggested, but none were satisfactory. Enchanted Rendezvous: John C. Houbolt and... Lunar Orbit Rendezvous..., Monograph 4 (1995) For these reasons, by late 1961, engineers at the Manned Spacecraft Center had begun to support Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. And by the spring of 1962 some key officials at NASA Headquarters in Washington were also sold on LOR. However, unanimity was desired, and the Saturn launch vehicle design engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama, led by Wernher von Braun, still preferred Earth Orbit Rendezvous. In mid May, Joseph F. Shea, Deputy Director of the Office of Manned Space Flight, informed Von Braun that it was likely that LOR was going to be selected. This would likely result in less work for Von Braun's Marshall Space Flight Center, but, according to Shea, Von Braun was assured that efforts would be made to give MSFC more work. The turning point came on June 7, 1962, when, after 6 hours of MSFC engineers presenting their case for EOR to Shea, Von Braun surprised his own "rocket team" by declaring that they now preferred Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. Von Braun said: "...It is absolutely mandatory that we arrive at a definite mode decision within the next few weeks, preferably by the first of July, 1962... If we do not make a clear-cut decision on the mode very soon, our chances of accomplishing the first lunar landing expedition in this decade will fade away rapidly... "We believe [Lunar Orbit Rendezvous] offers the highest confidence factor of successful accomplishment within this decade... We agree with the Manned Spacecraft Center that the designs of a maneuverable hyperbolic re-entry vehicle and of a lunar landing vehicle constitute the two most critical tasks in producing a successful lunar spacecraft. A drastic separation of these two functions is bound to greatly simplify the development of the spacecraft system."
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NASA's Classified Mercury, Gemini, Apollo Missions (1080p, 60fps)

NASA's Classified Mercury, Gemini, Apollo Missions (1080p, 60fps)

NASA's Classified Mercury, Gemini, Apollo Missions (1080p, 60fps)
This NASA technology video is structured to show the developments of all three NASA programs (Mercury, Gemini, Apollo) that lead the United States to the physical exploration of the Moon, which began when Luna 2, a space probe launched by the Soviet Union, made an impact on the surface of the Moon on September 14, 1959. Prior to that the only available means of exploration had been observation from Earth. The invention of the optical telescope brought about the first leap in the quality of lunar observations. Galileo Galilei is generally credited as the first person to use a telescope for astronomical purposes; having made his own telescope in 1609, the mountains and craters on the lunar surface were among his first observations using it. NASA's Apollo program was the first, and to date only, mission to successfully land humans on the Moon. The first landing took place in 1969, when astronauts placed scientific instruments and returned lunar samples to Earth. To learn more on NASA's exploration of the moon online, goto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_the_Moon FOLLOW on: https://www.facebook.com/documentarytube.net https://twitter.com/DocArchive THE LOST ARCHIVES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1DCxbhUP-M&list;=PLCIsViWU6sLnbOl2yVaWRzADY-c06z4UA

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Time of Apollo 1975 NASA Project Apollo Moon Program Summary; Burgess Meredith

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Project Apollo - Manned Flight To The Moon - 1963 NASA Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42

This NASA documentary from the early 1960's explains the steps that would need to be taken to place men on the moon and return them safely to earth, a feat first completed in 1969 during the Apollo 11 mission. The film opens with footage from early Project Mercury launches, then uses animation to explain the design concepts and features of the Saturn rockets, Apollo Command Module and Lunar Landing Module. In 2014 NASA celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. Note: any comments stating the moon landings were a hoax may be removed and user blocked. WDTVLIVE42 - Transport, technology, NASA and general interest movies from the past - newsreels, documentaries & publicity films from my archives. #Space

published: 20 Mar 2013
Launch Windows For Lunar Landing 1968 NASA JSC Project Apollo Mission Planning

more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Explains factors that determined launch windows for Project Apollo lunar landing missions, including lighting angles on the moon, planes of motion, available fuel, etc. NASA film JSC-336 from the Manned Spacecrat Center (Johnson Space Center) Mission Planning and Analysis Division. Reupload of a previously uploaded film with more improved sound and video. Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy tha...

published: 18 Sep 2015
The Flight of Apollo 7 1968 NASA First Manned Project Apollo Spaceflight

more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reupload of a previously uploaded film with more improved sound and video. "Records life and work on the first manned flight of the Apollo series. Apollo 7 was designated to make the essential test of the Apollo spacecraft before the ambitious lunar-orbital mission could be attempted. All systems respond perfectly. The first television from space highlights the film." NASA film JSC-498 Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not ...

published: 04 Oct 2015
Apollo 10: To Sort Out the Unknowns 1969 NASA Project Apollo Moon Landing Rehearsal Flight

more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved sound and video, and all in one piece instead of parts. "Astronauts: Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young, and Eugene A. Cernan Launch date: May 18, 1969 Records the accomplishment of the basic mission of Apollo 10 - to uncover and solve the few remaining problems before lunar landing. The Lunar Module descends to within 50,000 feet of the Moon. Includes photography of the Moon from high and low orbits." NASA film JSC-519 Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and 1-pass exposure & color correction applied (cannot be ideal in all scenes). The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise redu...

published: 28 Sep 2012
Project Apollo NASSP 7.0 Beta - LVDC++ Launch and Mode III SPS Abort

Project Apollo - NASSP (also known as NASSP or NCPP) is an add-on for the Orbiter space flight simulator. Project Apollo simulates the Apollo missions to Earth orbit and the Moon, and is slowly expanding to simulate planned post-Apollo missions that never flew. Project Apollo features a near-full implementation of the control panels in the Command Module and Lunar Module, and an increasingly accurate simulation of the internal systems (e.g. electrical distribution, fuel cells). Also the Virtual AGC software is supported, which allows you to run precisely the same on-board guidance software as used by the real Apollo Guidance Computer. This video shows the launch of Apollo 8 with the currently being developed simulation of the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC++) and a Mode III Abort a...

published: 21 Nov 2015
Project Apollo Mission Planning: "Fly Me to the Moon--And Back" 1966 NASA MPAD

NEW VERSION with more improved video & sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp75tsE1XuI more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html The work of the NASA Houston Manned Spacecraft Center 's Mission Planning and Analysis Division for Project Apollo. "Explains the complexity of planning a lunar mission trajectory. Includes mission analysis, new mathematical techniques, hybrid computers, mission operational plan, and real-time support for the NASA JSC's Mission Operations Control Room." NASA film JSC-315 Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved sound and video, and all in one piece instead of parts. Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and 1-pass exposure & color correction applied (canno...

published: 20 Sep 2012
Project Apollo: "Lunar Orbit Rendezvous" 1968 NASA Mission Planning and Analysis Division

NEW VERSION with more improved video & sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB7AA7B9hTI more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved sound and video, and all in one piece instead of parts. "Discusses the groundwork conducted by the NASA JSC's Mission Planning and Analysis Division in perfecting lunar rendezvous techniques. Normal, as well as abort, rendezvous situations are demonstrated." NASA film JSC-344 Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far...

published: 26 Sep 2012
NASA's Classified Mercury, Gemini, Apollo Missions (1080p, 60fps)

This NASA technology video is structured to show the developments of all three NASA programs (Mercury, Gemini, Apollo) that lead the United States to the physical exploration of the Moon, which began when Luna 2, a space probe launched by the Soviet Union, made an impact on the surface of the Moon on September 14, 1959. Prior to that the only available means of exploration had been observation from Earth. The invention of the optical telescope brought about the first leap in the quality of lunar observations. Galileo Galilei is generally credited as the first person to use a telescope for astronomical purposes; having made his own telescope in 1609, the mountains and craters on the lunar surface were among his first observations using it. NASA's Apollo program was the first, and to date o...

published: 19 Dec 2014

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Moon Shot: The Inside Story of the Apollo Project

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The epic story of the golden years of American space exploration, told by the men who rode the rockets On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I,...

The epic story of the golden years of American space exploration, told by the men who rode the rockets On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was born. Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975. They spent the 1960s at the forefront of NASA's effort to conquer space, and Moon Shot is their inside account of what many call the twentieth century's greatest feat—landing humans on another world.

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The epic story of the golden years of American space exploration, told by the men who rode the rockets On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was born. Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975. They spent the 1960s at the forefront of NASA's effort to conquer space, and Moon Shot is their inside account of what many call the twentieth century's greatest feat—landing humans on another world.

published: 14 Apr 2014
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Time of Apollo 1975 NASA Project Apollo Moon Program Summary; Burgess Meredith

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Project Apollo playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/ A 1975 summary of the entire Apollo m...

Project Apollo playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/ A 1975 summary of the entire Apollo moon landing program narrated by Burgess Meredith. NASA film HQ-229 Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module (LM) on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Command/Service Module (CSM), and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24. Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in December 1972. In these six spaceflights, twelve men walked on the Moon. Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, with the first manned flight in 1968. It achieved its goal of manned lunar landing, despite the major setback of a 1967 Apollo 1 cabin fire that killed the entire crew during a prelaunch test. After the first landing, sufficient flight hardware remained for nine follow-on landings with a plan for extended lunar geological and astrophysical exploration. Budget cuts forced the cancellation of three of these. Five of the remaining six missions achieved successful landings, but the Apollo 13 landing was prevented by an oxygen tank explosion in transit to the Moon, which damaged the CSM's propulsion and life support. The crew returned to Earth safely by using the Lunar Module as a "lifeboat" for these functions. It used Saturn family rockets as launch vehicles, which were also used for an Apollo Applications Program, which consisted of Skylab, a space station that supported three manned missions in 1973–74, and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, a joint Earth orbit mission with the Soviet Union in 1975. Apollo set several major human spaceflight milestones. It stands alone in sending manned missions beyond low Earth orbit. Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to orbit another celestial body, while the final Apollo 17 mission marked the sixth Moon landing and the ninth manned mission beyond low Earth orbit. The program returned 842 pounds (382 kg) of lunar rocks and soil to Earth, greatly contributing to the understanding of the Moon's composition and geological history. The program laid the foundation for NASA's current human spaceflight capability, and funded construction of its Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center. Apollo also spurred advances in many areas of technology incidental to rocketry and manned spaceflight, including avionics, telecommunications, and computers... NASA, Apollo, moon landing, lunar landing, space program, moon program, Lunar Module, LM, CM, CSM, Apollo 11, Apollo 17, Saturn V, Saturn IB,

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Project Apollo playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/ A 1975 summary of the entire Apollo moon landing program narrated by Burgess Meredith. NASA film HQ-229 Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module (LM) on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Command/Service Module (CSM), and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24. Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in December 1972. In these six spaceflights, twelve men walked on the Moon. Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, with the first manned flight in 1968. It achieved its goal of manned lunar landing, despite the major setback of a 1967 Apollo 1 cabin fire that killed the entire crew during a prelaunch test. After the first landing, sufficient flight hardware remained for nine follow-on landings with a plan for extended lunar geological and astrophysical exploration. Budget cuts forced the cancellation of three of these. Five of the remaining six missions achieved successful landings, but the Apollo 13 landing was prevented by an oxygen tank explosion in transit to the Moon, which damaged the CSM's propulsion and life support. The crew returned to Earth safely by using the Lunar Module as a "lifeboat" for these functions. It used Saturn family rockets as launch vehicles, which were also used for an Apollo Applications Program, which consisted of Skylab, a space station that supported three manned missions in 1973–74, and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, a joint Earth orbit mission with the Soviet Union in 1975. Apollo set several major human spaceflight milestones. It stands alone in sending manned missions beyond low Earth orbit. Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to orbit another celestial body, while the final Apollo 17 mission marked the sixth Moon landing and the ninth manned mission beyond low Earth orbit. The program returned 842 pounds (382 kg) of lunar rocks and soil to Earth, greatly contributing to the understanding of the Moon's composition and geological history. The program laid the foundation for NASA's current human spaceflight capability, and funded construction of its Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center. Apollo also spurred advances in many areas of technology incidental to rocketry and manned spaceflight, including avionics, telecommunications, and computers... NASA, Apollo, moon landing, lunar landing, space program, moon program, Lunar Module, LM, CM, CSM, Apollo 11, Apollo 17, Saturn V, Saturn IB,

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Project Apollo - Manned Flight To The Moon - 1963 NASA Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42

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This NASA documentary from the early 1960's explains the steps that would need to be taken to place men on the moon and return them safely to earth, a feat firs...

This NASA documentary from the early 1960's explains the steps that would need to be taken to place men on the moon and return them safely to earth, a feat first completed in 1969 during the Apollo 11 mission. The film opens with footage from early Project Mercury launches, then uses animation to explain the design concepts and features of the Saturn rockets, Apollo Command Module and Lunar Landing Module. In 2014 NASA celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. Note: any comments stating the moon landings were a hoax may be removed and user blocked. WDTVLIVE42 - Transport, technology, NASA and general interest movies from the past - newsreels, documentaries & publicity films from my archives. #Space

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This NASA documentary from the early 1960's explains the steps that would need to be taken to place men on the moon and return them safely to earth, a feat first completed in 1969 during the Apollo 11 mission. The film opens with footage from early Project Mercury launches, then uses animation to explain the design concepts and features of the Saturn rockets, Apollo Command Module and Lunar Landing Module. In 2014 NASA celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. Note: any comments stating the moon landings were a hoax may be removed and user blocked. WDTVLIVE42 - Transport, technology, NASA and general interest movies from the past - newsreels, documentaries & publicity films from my archives. #Space

published: 20 Mar 2013
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Launch Windows For Lunar Landing 1968 NASA JSC Project Apollo Mission Planning

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more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Explains factors that determined launch windows for Project Apollo lunar landing missions, incl...

more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Explains factors that determined launch windows for Project Apollo lunar landing missions, including lighting angles on the moon, planes of motion, available fuel, etc. NASA film JSC-336 from the Manned Spacecrat Center (Johnson Space Center) Mission Planning and Analysis Division. Reupload of a previously uploaded film with more improved sound and video. Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). PROJECT APOLLO PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_window In the context of spaceflight, a launch window is a time period during which a particular vehicle (rocket, Space Shuttle, etc.) must be launched in order to reach its intended target. If the rocket is not launched within the "window", it has to wait for the next window. For trips into largely arbitrary Earth orbits, any time will do. But if the spacecraft intends to rendezvous with a space station (such as the International Space Station) or another vehicle already in an orbit, the launch must be carefully timed to occur around the times that the target vehicle's orbital plane intersects the launch site. Earth observation satellites are often launched into sun-synchronous orbits which are near-polar. For these orbits, the launch window occurs at the time of day when the launch site location is aligned with the plane of the required orbit. To launch at another time would require an orbital plane change manoeuvre which would require a large amount of propellant. For launches above low Earth orbit (LEO), the actual launch time can be somewhat flexible if a parking orbit is used, because the inclination and time the spacecraft initially spends in the parking orbit can be varied... To go to another planet using the simple low-energy Hohmann transfer orbit, if eccentricity of orbits is not a factor, launch windows are periodic according to the synodic period; for example, in the case of Mars, the period is 2.135 years, (780 days). In more complex cases, including the use of gravitational slingshots, launch windows are irregular. Sometimes, rare opportunities arise, such as when Voyager 2 took advantage of a 175-year planetary alignment (launch window) to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. When such an opportunity is missed, another target may be selected. For example, the ESA's Rosetta mission was originally intended for comet 46P/Wirtanen, but a launcher problem delayed it and a new target had to be selected (comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko). Launch windows are often calculated from porkchop plots, which show the delta-v needed to achieve the mission plotted against the launch time. Specific issues Space Shuttle missions to the International Space Station were restricted by beta angle cutout. Beta angle (\beta) is defined as the angle between the orbit plane and the vector from the Sun. Due to the relationship between an orbiting object's beta angle (in this case, the ISS) and the percent of its orbit that is spent in sunlight, solar power generation and thermal control are affected by that beta angle. Shuttle launches to the ISS were normally only attempted when the ISS was in an orbit with a beta angle of less than 60 degrees.

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more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Explains factors that determined launch windows for Project Apollo lunar landing missions, including lighting angles on the moon, planes of motion, available fuel, etc. NASA film JSC-336 from the Manned Spacecrat Center (Johnson Space Center) Mission Planning and Analysis Division. Reupload of a previously uploaded film with more improved sound and video. Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). PROJECT APOLLO PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_window In the context of spaceflight, a launch window is a time period during which a particular vehicle (rocket, Space Shuttle, etc.) must be launched in order to reach its intended target. If the rocket is not launched within the "window", it has to wait for the next window. For trips into largely arbitrary Earth orbits, any time will do. But if the spacecraft intends to rendezvous with a space station (such as the International Space Station) or another vehicle already in an orbit, the launch must be carefully timed to occur around the times that the target vehicle's orbital plane intersects the launch site. Earth observation satellites are often launched into sun-synchronous orbits which are near-polar. For these orbits, the launch window occurs at the time of day when the launch site location is aligned with the plane of the required orbit. To launch at another time would require an orbital plane change manoeuvre which would require a large amount of propellant. For launches above low Earth orbit (LEO), the actual launch time can be somewhat flexible if a parking orbit is used, because the inclination and time the spacecraft initially spends in the parking orbit can be varied... To go to another planet using the simple low-energy Hohmann transfer orbit, if eccentricity of orbits is not a factor, launch windows are periodic according to the synodic period; for example, in the case of Mars, the period is 2.135 years, (780 days). In more complex cases, including the use of gravitational slingshots, launch windows are irregular. Sometimes, rare opportunities arise, such as when Voyager 2 took advantage of a 175-year planetary alignment (launch window) to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. When such an opportunity is missed, another target may be selected. For example, the ESA's Rosetta mission was originally intended for comet 46P/Wirtanen, but a launcher problem delayed it and a new target had to be selected (comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko). Launch windows are often calculated from porkchop plots, which show the delta-v needed to achieve the mission plotted against the launch time. Specific issues Space Shuttle missions to the International Space Station were restricted by beta angle cutout. Beta angle (\beta) is defined as the angle between the orbit plane and the vector from the Sun. Due to the relationship between an orbiting object's beta angle (in this case, the ISS) and the percent of its orbit that is spent in sunlight, solar power generation and thermal control are affected by that beta angle. Shuttle launches to the ISS were normally only attempted when the ISS was in an orbit with a beta angle of less than 60 degrees.

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The Flight of Apollo 7 1968 NASA First Manned Project Apollo Spaceflight

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more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reupload of a previously uploaded film with more improved sound and video. "Records life and w...

more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reupload of a previously uploaded film with more improved sound and video. "Records life and work on the first manned flight of the Apollo series. Apollo 7 was designated to make the essential test of the Apollo spacecraft before the ambitious lunar-orbital mission could be attempted. All systems respond perfectly. The first television from space highlights the film." NASA film JSC-498 Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_7 Apollo 7 was the first manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, and the first manned US space flight after a cabin fire killed the crew of what was to have been the first manned mission, AS-204 (later renamed Apollo 1), during a launch pad test in 1967. It was a C type mission—an 11-day Earth-orbital mission, the first manned launch of the Saturn IB launch vehicle, and the first three-person US space mission. The crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with Command Module Pilot Donn F. Eisele, and Lunar Module Pilot R. Walter Cunningham. The mission was the first manned test of the redesigned Block II Apollo Command/Service Module. It flew in Earth orbit so the crew could check life-support, propulsion, and control systems. Despite tension between the crew and ground controllers, the mission was a technical success, which gave NASA the confidence to launch Apollo 8 around the Moon two months later. However, the flight would prove to be the last space flight for all of its three crew members. It was also the final manned launch from what was then known as Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida ... Mission highlights Apollo 7 was a test flight, and confidence-builder. After the January 1967 Apollo launch pad fire, the Apollo Command Module had been extensively redesigned. Schirra, who would be the only astronaut to fly Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, commanded this Earth-orbital shakedown of the Command and Service Modules. Since it was not carrying a Lunar Module and only needed to reach a low earth orbit, Apollo 7 could be launched with the Saturn IB booster rather than the much larger and more powerful Saturn V. Schirra wanted to name the Apollo 7 Command module "Phoenix" (the mythical bird rising from its own ashes) in memory of the late Apollo 1 crew, but NASA management rejected the idea... The Apollo hardware and all mission operations worked without any significant problems, and the Service Propulsion System (SPS), the all-important engine that would place Apollo into and out of lunar orbit, made eight nearly perfect firings. Even though Apollo's larger cabin was more comfortable than Gemini's, 11 days in orbit took its toll on the astronauts. Tension with Schirra began with the launch decision, when flight managers decided to launch with a less than ideal abort option for the early part of the ascent. Once in orbit, the spacious cabin may have induced some crew motion sickness, which had not been an issue in the earlier, smaller spacecraft. The crew was also unhappy with their food selections. But the worst problem occurred when Schirra developed a severe head cold. As a result, he became irritable with requests from Mission Control and all three astronauts began "talking back" to the Capcom... Exchanges such as this led to all three Apollo 7 crew members being rejected for future missions. Despite these difficulties, the mission successfully met its objective of verifying manned flight capability of the Apollo Command and Service Modules, allowing the flight of Apollo 8 to the Moon just two months later. Beyond a shakedown of the spacecraft, goals for the mission included the first live television broadcast from an American spacecraft (Gordon Cooper had broadcast slow scan television pictures from Faith 7 in 1963) and testing the mock LM docking maneuver which involved rendezvous with the launch vehicle's discarded upper stage (referred to by Schirra in the above conversation.) The splashdown point was 27 deg 32 min N, 64 deg 04 min W, 200 nautical miles (370 km) SSW of Bermuda and 7 nmi (13 km) north of the recovery ship USS Essex. Apollo 7 was the only manned Apollo launch to take place from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station's Launch Complex 34. All subsequent Apollo and Skylab missions (including Apollo-Soyuz) were launched from Launch Complex 39 at the nearby Kennedy Space Center, and Launch Complex 34 was retired. As of 2012, Cunningham is the only surviving member of the crew. Eisele died in 1987 and Schirra in 2007...

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more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reupload of a previously uploaded film with more improved sound and video. "Records life and work on the first manned flight of the Apollo series. Apollo 7 was designated to make the essential test of the Apollo spacecraft before the ambitious lunar-orbital mission could be attempted. All systems respond perfectly. The first television from space highlights the film." NASA film JSC-498 Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_7 Apollo 7 was the first manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, and the first manned US space flight after a cabin fire killed the crew of what was to have been the first manned mission, AS-204 (later renamed Apollo 1), during a launch pad test in 1967. It was a C type mission—an 11-day Earth-orbital mission, the first manned launch of the Saturn IB launch vehicle, and the first three-person US space mission. The crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with Command Module Pilot Donn F. Eisele, and Lunar Module Pilot R. Walter Cunningham. The mission was the first manned test of the redesigned Block II Apollo Command/Service Module. It flew in Earth orbit so the crew could check life-support, propulsion, and control systems. Despite tension between the crew and ground controllers, the mission was a technical success, which gave NASA the confidence to launch Apollo 8 around the Moon two months later. However, the flight would prove to be the last space flight for all of its three crew members. It was also the final manned launch from what was then known as Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida ... Mission highlights Apollo 7 was a test flight, and confidence-builder. After the January 1967 Apollo launch pad fire, the Apollo Command Module had been extensively redesigned. Schirra, who would be the only astronaut to fly Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, commanded this Earth-orbital shakedown of the Command and Service Modules. Since it was not carrying a Lunar Module and only needed to reach a low earth orbit, Apollo 7 could be launched with the Saturn IB booster rather than the much larger and more powerful Saturn V. Schirra wanted to name the Apollo 7 Command module "Phoenix" (the mythical bird rising from its own ashes) in memory of the late Apollo 1 crew, but NASA management rejected the idea... The Apollo hardware and all mission operations worked without any significant problems, and the Service Propulsion System (SPS), the all-important engine that would place Apollo into and out of lunar orbit, made eight nearly perfect firings. Even though Apollo's larger cabin was more comfortable than Gemini's, 11 days in orbit took its toll on the astronauts. Tension with Schirra began with the launch decision, when flight managers decided to launch with a less than ideal abort option for the early part of the ascent. Once in orbit, the spacious cabin may have induced some crew motion sickness, which had not been an issue in the earlier, smaller spacecraft. The crew was also unhappy with their food selections. But the worst problem occurred when Schirra developed a severe head cold. As a result, he became irritable with requests from Mission Control and all three astronauts began "talking back" to the Capcom... Exchanges such as this led to all three Apollo 7 crew members being rejected for future missions. Despite these difficulties, the mission successfully met its objective of verifying manned flight capability of the Apollo Command and Service Modules, allowing the flight of Apollo 8 to the Moon just two months later. Beyond a shakedown of the spacecraft, goals for the mission included the first live television broadcast from an American spacecraft (Gordon Cooper had broadcast slow scan television pictures from Faith 7 in 1963) and testing the mock LM docking maneuver which involved rendezvous with the launch vehicle's discarded upper stage (referred to by Schirra in the above conversation.) The splashdown point was 27 deg 32 min N, 64 deg 04 min W, 200 nautical miles (370 km) SSW of Bermuda and 7 nmi (13 km) north of the recovery ship USS Essex. Apollo 7 was the only manned Apollo launch to take place from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station's Launch Complex 34. All subsequent Apollo and Skylab missions (including Apollo-Soyuz) were launched from Launch Complex 39 at the nearby Kennedy Space Center, and Launch Complex 34 was retired. As of 2012, Cunningham is the only surviving member of the crew. Eisele died in 1987 and Schirra in 2007...

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Apollo 10: To Sort Out the Unknowns 1969 NASA Project Apollo Moon Landing Rehearsal Flight

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more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved sound and video, and all in one piece inst...

more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved sound and video, and all in one piece instead of parts. "Astronauts: Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young, and Eugene A. Cernan Launch date: May 18, 1969 Records the accomplishment of the basic mission of Apollo 10 - to uncover and solve the few remaining problems before lunar landing. The Lunar Module descends to within 50,000 feet of the Moon. Includes photography of the Moon from high and low orbits." NASA film JSC-519 Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and 1-pass exposure & color correction applied (cannot be ideal in all scenes). The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). PROJECT APOLLO PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10 Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program. It was an F type mission—its purpose was to be a "dry run" for the Apollo 11 mission, testing all of the procedures and components of a Moon landing without actually landing on the Moon itself. The mission included the second crew to orbit the Moon and an all-up test of the lunar module (LM) in lunar orbit. The LM came to within 8.4 nautical miles (15.6 km) of the lunar surface during practice maneuvers. According to the 2002 Guinness World Records, Apollo 10 set the record for the highest speed attained by a manned vehicle at 39,897 km/h (11.08 km/s or 24,791 mph) during the return from the Moon on May 26, 1969. Due to the use of their names as call signs, the Peanuts characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy became semi-official mascots for the mission. Peanuts creator Charles Schulz also drew some special mission-related artwork for NASA... Mission highlights This dress rehearsal for a Moon landing brought Stafford and Cernan's lunar module Snoopy to 8.4 nautical miles (15.6 km) from the lunar surface. The low approach orbit was to refine the lunar gravitational potential needed to calibrate the powered descent guidance system to within 1-nautical-mile (1.9 km) (LR altitude update lock) needed for a landing. Earth-based observations, unmanned spacecraft, and Apollo 8 respectively had allowed calibration to 200 nautical miles (370 km), 20 nautical miles (37 km), and 5 nautical miles (9.3 km). Except for that final stretch, the mission went exactly as a landing would have gone, both in space and on the ground, putting Apollo's extensive tracking and control network through a dry run. Shortly after leaving low Earth orbit, the command/service module separated from the S-IVB stage, turned around, and docked its nose to the top of the lunar module still nestled in the S-IVB. The CSM/LM stack then separated from the S-IVB for the trip to the Moon. Apollo 10 was the first to carry a color television camera inside the spacecraft, and made the first live color TV broadcasts from space. Upon reaching lunar orbit, Young remained alone in the command module Charlie Brown while Stafford and Cernan flew separately in the LM. The LM crew checked out their craft's radar and ascent engine, rode out a momentary gyration in the lunar lander's motion (due to a faulty switch setting), and surveyed the Apollo 11 landing site in the Sea of Tranquility. NASA took special precaution to ensure Stafford and Cernan would not attempt to make the first landing. According to Cernan, "A lot of people thought about the kind of people we were: 'Don't give those guys an opportunity to land, 'cause they might!' So the ascent module, the part we lifted off the lunar surface with, was short-fueled. The fuel tanks weren't full. So had we literally tried to land on the Moon, we couldn't have gotten off." The fueled Apollo 10 LM weighed 30,735 pounds (13,941 kg), compared to 33,278 pounds (15,095 kg) for the Apollo 11 LM which made the first landing. Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean on May 26, 1969 at 16:52:23 UTC, approximately 400 nautical miles (740 km) east of American Samoa. The astronauts were recovered by the USS Princeton, and subsequently flown to Pago Pago International Airport in Tafuna for a greeting reception, before being flown on a C-141 cargo plane to Honolulu. Hardware disposition The LM Snoopy's descent stage was left in orbit, but eventually crashed onto the lunar surface because of the Moon's non-uniform gravitational field; its location was not tracked. After being jettisoned, Snoopy's ascent stage flew on a trajectory past the Moon into a heliocentric orbit, making it the sole intact Lunar Module ascent stage remaining of the 10 LMs sent into space... The Command Module Charlie Brown is currently on loan to the Science Museum in London...

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more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved sound and video, and all in one piece instead of parts. "Astronauts: Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young, and Eugene A. Cernan Launch date: May 18, 1969 Records the accomplishment of the basic mission of Apollo 10 - to uncover and solve the few remaining problems before lunar landing. The Lunar Module descends to within 50,000 feet of the Moon. Includes photography of the Moon from high and low orbits." NASA film JSC-519 Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and 1-pass exposure & color correction applied (cannot be ideal in all scenes). The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). PROJECT APOLLO PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10 Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program. It was an F type mission—its purpose was to be a "dry run" for the Apollo 11 mission, testing all of the procedures and components of a Moon landing without actually landing on the Moon itself. The mission included the second crew to orbit the Moon and an all-up test of the lunar module (LM) in lunar orbit. The LM came to within 8.4 nautical miles (15.6 km) of the lunar surface during practice maneuvers. According to the 2002 Guinness World Records, Apollo 10 set the record for the highest speed attained by a manned vehicle at 39,897 km/h (11.08 km/s or 24,791 mph) during the return from the Moon on May 26, 1969. Due to the use of their names as call signs, the Peanuts characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy became semi-official mascots for the mission. Peanuts creator Charles Schulz also drew some special mission-related artwork for NASA... Mission highlights This dress rehearsal for a Moon landing brought Stafford and Cernan's lunar module Snoopy to 8.4 nautical miles (15.6 km) from the lunar surface. The low approach orbit was to refine the lunar gravitational potential needed to calibrate the powered descent guidance system to within 1-nautical-mile (1.9 km) (LR altitude update lock) needed for a landing. Earth-based observations, unmanned spacecraft, and Apollo 8 respectively had allowed calibration to 200 nautical miles (370 km), 20 nautical miles (37 km), and 5 nautical miles (9.3 km). Except for that final stretch, the mission went exactly as a landing would have gone, both in space and on the ground, putting Apollo's extensive tracking and control network through a dry run. Shortly after leaving low Earth orbit, the command/service module separated from the S-IVB stage, turned around, and docked its nose to the top of the lunar module still nestled in the S-IVB. The CSM/LM stack then separated from the S-IVB for the trip to the Moon. Apollo 10 was the first to carry a color television camera inside the spacecraft, and made the first live color TV broadcasts from space. Upon reaching lunar orbit, Young remained alone in the command module Charlie Brown while Stafford and Cernan flew separately in the LM. The LM crew checked out their craft's radar and ascent engine, rode out a momentary gyration in the lunar lander's motion (due to a faulty switch setting), and surveyed the Apollo 11 landing site in the Sea of Tranquility. NASA took special precaution to ensure Stafford and Cernan would not attempt to make the first landing. According to Cernan, "A lot of people thought about the kind of people we were: 'Don't give those guys an opportunity to land, 'cause they might!' So the ascent module, the part we lifted off the lunar surface with, was short-fueled. The fuel tanks weren't full. So had we literally tried to land on the Moon, we couldn't have gotten off." The fueled Apollo 10 LM weighed 30,735 pounds (13,941 kg), compared to 33,278 pounds (15,095 kg) for the Apollo 11 LM which made the first landing. Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean on May 26, 1969 at 16:52:23 UTC, approximately 400 nautical miles (740 km) east of American Samoa. The astronauts were recovered by the USS Princeton, and subsequently flown to Pago Pago International Airport in Tafuna for a greeting reception, before being flown on a C-141 cargo plane to Honolulu. Hardware disposition The LM Snoopy's descent stage was left in orbit, but eventually crashed onto the lunar surface because of the Moon's non-uniform gravitational field; its location was not tracked. After being jettisoned, Snoopy's ascent stage flew on a trajectory past the Moon into a heliocentric orbit, making it the sole intact Lunar Module ascent stage remaining of the 10 LMs sent into space... The Command Module Charlie Brown is currently on loan to the Science Museum in London...

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Project Apollo NASSP 7.0 Beta - LVDC++ Launch and Mode III SPS Abort

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Project Apollo - NASSP (also known as NASSP or NCPP) is an add-on for the Orbiter space flight simulator. Project Apollo simulates the Apollo missions to Earth ...

Project Apollo - NASSP (also known as NASSP or NCPP) is an add-on for the Orbiter space flight simulator. Project Apollo simulates the Apollo missions to Earth orbit and the Moon, and is slowly expanding to simulate planned post-Apollo missions that never flew. Project Apollo features a near-full implementation of the control panels in the Command Module and Lunar Module, and an increasingly accurate simulation of the internal systems (e.g. electrical distribution, fuel cells). Also the Virtual AGC software is supported, which allows you to run precisely the same on-board guidance software as used by the real Apollo Guidance Computer. This video shows the launch of Apollo 8 with the currently being developed simulation of the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC++) and a Mode III Abort at 11:00 GET. From the "Operational Abort Plan For The Apollo 8 Mission": The mode III abort procedures are required for contingencies that occur beyond mode II (R greater than 3200 n. mi.) when a safe orbit cannot be achieved or when SC systems malfunctions dictate immediate landings. The first mode III requirement is unlikely because of the large COI region and because the LV cutoff conditions would have to be greatly dispersed from the nominal launch trajectory. The second requirement is unlikely because if such a malfunction had occurred during launch the abort would more probably be initiated before mode III was entered, and failures that occur after mode III is entered would be almost impossible to confirm in sufficient time to recommend a mode III abort. Mode III abort capability begins at the end of mode II when the full-lift landing range exceeds 3200 n.mi. (600 seconds g.e.t.). Since mode III entries are half lift (RL55) and the SPS retrograde burn is only required to achieve a landing range of 3350 n.mi., there exists a period (between 600 and 624 seconds g.e.t.) for which the no-burn landing would land west of the 3350-n.mi. landing target (ADRA). The mode III capability ends once the required SPS burn violates the 100-second tff [time to 300k feet] constraint. This occurs approximately 2 seconds prior to the S-IVB cutoff signal and suborbital aborts required after that time would require terminating the burn on tff = 100 seconds and then a zero lift (RL90) entry to avoid a land landing. Checklist for Mode III Abort: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/ap15fj/csmlc/4-04.gif http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/ap15fj/csmlc/4-05.gif Orbiter Downloads: Orbiter 2010: http://orbitersimulator.com/orbiter-2010-downloads/ Orbiter DX9 Graphics Upgrade: http://d3d9client.codeplex.com/ Orbiter Sound 4.0: http://orbiter.dansteph.com/forum/index.php?page=download Project Apollo - NASSP: http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page NASSP development snapshots: https://github.com/dseagrav/NASSP/releases

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Project Apollo - NASSP (also known as NASSP or NCPP) is an add-on for the Orbiter space flight simulator. Project Apollo simulates the Apollo missions to Earth orbit and the Moon, and is slowly expanding to simulate planned post-Apollo missions that never flew. Project Apollo features a near-full implementation of the control panels in the Command Module and Lunar Module, and an increasingly accurate simulation of the internal systems (e.g. electrical distribution, fuel cells). Also the Virtual AGC software is supported, which allows you to run precisely the same on-board guidance software as used by the real Apollo Guidance Computer. This video shows the launch of Apollo 8 with the currently being developed simulation of the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC++) and a Mode III Abort at 11:00 GET. From the "Operational Abort Plan For The Apollo 8 Mission": The mode III abort procedures are required for contingencies that occur beyond mode II (R greater than 3200 n. mi.) when a safe orbit cannot be achieved or when SC systems malfunctions dictate immediate landings. The first mode III requirement is unlikely because of the large COI region and because the LV cutoff conditions would have to be greatly dispersed from the nominal launch trajectory. The second requirement is unlikely because if such a malfunction had occurred during launch the abort would more probably be initiated before mode III was entered, and failures that occur after mode III is entered would be almost impossible to confirm in sufficient time to recommend a mode III abort. Mode III abort capability begins at the end of mode II when the full-lift landing range exceeds 3200 n.mi. (600 seconds g.e.t.). Since mode III entries are half lift (RL55) and the SPS retrograde burn is only required to achieve a landing range of 3350 n.mi., there exists a period (between 600 and 624 seconds g.e.t.) for which the no-burn landing would land west of the 3350-n.mi. landing target (ADRA). The mode III capability ends once the required SPS burn violates the 100-second tff [time to 300k feet] constraint. This occurs approximately 2 seconds prior to the S-IVB cutoff signal and suborbital aborts required after that time would require terminating the burn on tff = 100 seconds and then a zero lift (RL90) entry to avoid a land landing. Checklist for Mode III Abort: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/ap15fj/csmlc/4-04.gif http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/ap15fj/csmlc/4-05.gif Orbiter Downloads: Orbiter 2010: http://orbitersimulator.com/orbiter-2010-downloads/ Orbiter DX9 Graphics Upgrade: http://d3d9client.codeplex.com/ Orbiter Sound 4.0: http://orbiter.dansteph.com/forum/index.php?page=download Project Apollo - NASSP: http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page NASSP development snapshots: https://github.com/dseagrav/NASSP/releases

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Project Apollo Mission Planning: "Fly Me to the Moon--And Back" 1966 NASA MPAD

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NEW VERSION with more improved video & sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp75tsE1XuI more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html The ...

NEW VERSION with more improved video & sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp75tsE1XuI more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html The work of the NASA Houston Manned Spacecraft Center 's Mission Planning and Analysis Division for Project Apollo. "Explains the complexity of planning a lunar mission trajectory. Includes mission analysis, new mathematical techniques, hybrid computers, mission operational plan, and real-time support for the NASA JSC's Mission Operations Control Room." NASA film JSC-315 Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved sound and video, and all in one piece instead of parts. Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and 1-pass exposure & color correction applied (cannot be ideal in all scenes). The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). PROJECT APOLLO PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Task_Group The Space Task Group was a working group of NASA engineers created in 1958, tasked with superintending America's manned spaceflight programs. It was headed by Robert Gilruth and based at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. After President John F. Kennedy set the goal of the Apollo Program to land men on the Moon in 1961, NASA decided a much larger organization and a new facility was required to perform the Task Group's function, and it was transformed into the Manned Spacecraft Center (now the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center), located in Houston, Texas ... History Created on November 5, 1958, the Space Task Group was headed by Robert Gilruth. Originally it consisted of 45 people, including eight secretaries and "computers" (the term for women who ran calculations on mechanical adding machines). Of its 37 engineers, 27 were from Langley Research Center and ten had been assigned from Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Original members of the group included Charles Donlan, Gilruth's deputy; Max Faget, head of engineering; Chuck Mathews, head of flight operations; Chris Kraft, also in flight operations; and Glynn Lunney, who at 21 was the youngest member of the group. The head of the public affairs office was John "Shorty" Powers. In 1959, the group was expanded by the addition of 32 engineers from Canada, who had been left without jobs when the Avro Arrow project was cancelled. These new additions, Canadians and some British, included Jim Chamberlin, George Harris, John Hodge, Owen Maynard, Bryan Erb, Rodney Rose and Tecwyn Roberts. After President John F. Kennedy set the national goal on May 25, 1961 of landing men on the Moon by the end of the 1960s, it became clear to NASA administrator James E. Webb that Gilruth would need a much larger organization and facilities, in fact a new dedicated NASA center, to administrate US manned space programs. Webb got the approval of Kennedy and the Congress, and in August 1961 appointed a team to select a site for the new center. On September 19, Webb announced the new Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) would be built on a Houston, Texas site donated by Rice University. Gilruth immediately began the transition of his Task Group into the new MSC, planning his increased staff organization and its move to Houston, using temporary leased office and test facility space on 12 sites while the new facility was being built. By September 1962, his organization was moved to Houston and construction had begun, effectively marking the end of the Task Group. The MSC facility was completed in September 1963... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson_Space_Center ...Construction of the center, designed by Charles Luckman, began in April 1962, and Gilruth's new organization was formed and moved to the temporary locations by September. That month, Kennedy gave a speech at Rice University on the US space program. The speech is famous for highlighting the Apollo program, but Kennedy also made reference to the new Center... The 1,620-acre (6.6 km2) facility was officially opened for business in September 1963. The facility was to be the primary flight control center for all subsequent U.S. manned space missions from Project Gemini forward. The MSC's Mission Control Center first became operational for the flight of Gemini 4 in June 1965. In addition to housing NASA's astronaut operations, JSC is also the site of the former Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where the first astronauts returning from the moon were quarantined, and where the majority of lunar samples are stored. The center's Landing and Recovery Division operated MV Retriever in the Gulf of Mexico for Gemini and Apollo astronauts to practice water egress after splashdown...

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NEW VERSION with more improved video & sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp75tsE1XuI more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html The work of the NASA Houston Manned Spacecraft Center 's Mission Planning and Analysis Division for Project Apollo. "Explains the complexity of planning a lunar mission trajectory. Includes mission analysis, new mathematical techniques, hybrid computers, mission operational plan, and real-time support for the NASA JSC's Mission Operations Control Room." NASA film JSC-315 Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved sound and video, and all in one piece instead of parts. Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and 1-pass exposure & color correction applied (cannot be ideal in all scenes). The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). PROJECT APOLLO PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Task_Group The Space Task Group was a working group of NASA engineers created in 1958, tasked with superintending America's manned spaceflight programs. It was headed by Robert Gilruth and based at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. After President John F. Kennedy set the goal of the Apollo Program to land men on the Moon in 1961, NASA decided a much larger organization and a new facility was required to perform the Task Group's function, and it was transformed into the Manned Spacecraft Center (now the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center), located in Houston, Texas ... History Created on November 5, 1958, the Space Task Group was headed by Robert Gilruth. Originally it consisted of 45 people, including eight secretaries and "computers" (the term for women who ran calculations on mechanical adding machines). Of its 37 engineers, 27 were from Langley Research Center and ten had been assigned from Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Original members of the group included Charles Donlan, Gilruth's deputy; Max Faget, head of engineering; Chuck Mathews, head of flight operations; Chris Kraft, also in flight operations; and Glynn Lunney, who at 21 was the youngest member of the group. The head of the public affairs office was John "Shorty" Powers. In 1959, the group was expanded by the addition of 32 engineers from Canada, who had been left without jobs when the Avro Arrow project was cancelled. These new additions, Canadians and some British, included Jim Chamberlin, George Harris, John Hodge, Owen Maynard, Bryan Erb, Rodney Rose and Tecwyn Roberts. After President John F. Kennedy set the national goal on May 25, 1961 of landing men on the Moon by the end of the 1960s, it became clear to NASA administrator James E. Webb that Gilruth would need a much larger organization and facilities, in fact a new dedicated NASA center, to administrate US manned space programs. Webb got the approval of Kennedy and the Congress, and in August 1961 appointed a team to select a site for the new center. On September 19, Webb announced the new Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) would be built on a Houston, Texas site donated by Rice University. Gilruth immediately began the transition of his Task Group into the new MSC, planning his increased staff organization and its move to Houston, using temporary leased office and test facility space on 12 sites while the new facility was being built. By September 1962, his organization was moved to Houston and construction had begun, effectively marking the end of the Task Group. The MSC facility was completed in September 1963... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson_Space_Center ...Construction of the center, designed by Charles Luckman, began in April 1962, and Gilruth's new organization was formed and moved to the temporary locations by September. That month, Kennedy gave a speech at Rice University on the US space program. The speech is famous for highlighting the Apollo program, but Kennedy also made reference to the new Center... The 1,620-acre (6.6 km2) facility was officially opened for business in September 1963. The facility was to be the primary flight control center for all subsequent U.S. manned space missions from Project Gemini forward. The MSC's Mission Control Center first became operational for the flight of Gemini 4 in June 1965. In addition to housing NASA's astronaut operations, JSC is also the site of the former Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where the first astronauts returning from the moon were quarantined, and where the majority of lunar samples are stored. The center's Landing and Recovery Division operated MV Retriever in the Gulf of Mexico for Gemini and Apollo astronauts to practice water egress after splashdown...

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Project Apollo: "Lunar Orbit Rendezvous" 1968 NASA Mission Planning and Analysis Division

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NEW VERSION with more improved video & sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB7AA7B9hTI more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reup...

NEW VERSION with more improved video & sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB7AA7B9hTI more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved sound and video, and all in one piece instead of parts. "Discusses the groundwork conducted by the NASA JSC's Mission Planning and Analysis Division in perfecting lunar rendezvous techniques. Normal, as well as abort, rendezvous situations are demonstrated." NASA film JSC-344 Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). PROJECT APOLLO PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html On July 11, 1962 NASA announced that the Lunar Orbit Rendezvous mode would be used the manned lunar landing mission... The Lunar Orbit Rendezvous mode for lunar landing missions had been first suggested within NASA and the US aerospace industry in 1960... Dr. John C. Houbolt, assistant chief of the Dynamic Loads Division at Langley Research Center, was the leading expert on rendezvous in space. In early 1960, Houbolt realized the advantages of Lunar Orbit Rendezvous, and thereafter became its principle advocate. But convincing others at NASA that LOR was the best way to go would take almost two and a half years. To begin with, most engineers felt that any scheme involving rendezvous was too complicated and risky; therefore they preferred "direct ascent" plans which would required at least a Saturn C-8 (with a 12 million pounds thrust 1st stage, 8 F-1 engines) or an even larger "Nova" class launch vehicle. ...it gradually became obvious that the enormous rocket required to accomplish a direct ascent mission could not possibly be available in time. So the majority of engineers changed their preference to an Earth Orbit Rendezvous (EOR) plan... Both direct ascent and EOR presented difficulties in spacecraft design: 1. For one vehicle to make the trip, land on the moon, return to Earth, and a portion of it reenter the Earth's atmosphere would have required a far larger spacecraft than the eventual Apollo CSM and LM combined. The fuel for the return to Earth, and the reentry capsule, would have to be carried to the lunar surface and back up to orbit. This much larger, heavier spacecraft would be far more difficult to land on the moon than a smaller, lighter one would be. 2. The shape of such a dual-purpose craft was troublesome. Pilots need to see where they are going. How could a single craft be designed which would allow the pilots to look down at the lunar surface, while allowing them to recline facing upward during ascent to Earth orbit and, later, while reentering the Earth's atmosphere? Solutions were suggested, but none were satisfactory. Enchanted Rendezvous: John C. Houbolt and... Lunar Orbit Rendezvous..., Monograph 4 (1995) For these reasons, by late 1961, engineers at the Manned Spacecraft Center had begun to support Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. And by the spring of 1962 some key officials at NASA Headquarters in Washington were also sold on LOR. However, unanimity was desired, and the Saturn launch vehicle design engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama, led by Wernher von Braun, still preferred Earth Orbit Rendezvous. In mid May, Joseph F. Shea, Deputy Director of the Office of Manned Space Flight, informed Von Braun that it was likely that LOR was going to be selected. This would likely result in less work for Von Braun's Marshall Space Flight Center, but, according to Shea, Von Braun was assured that efforts would be made to give MSFC more work. The turning point came on June 7, 1962, when, after 6 hours of MSFC engineers presenting their case for EOR to Shea, Von Braun surprised his own "rocket team" by declaring that they now preferred Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. Von Braun said: "...It is absolutely mandatory that we arrive at a definite mode decision within the next few weeks, preferably by the first of July, 1962... If we do not make a clear-cut decision on the mode very soon, our chances of accomplishing the first lunar landing expedition in this decade will fade away rapidly... "We believe [Lunar Orbit Rendezvous] offers the highest confidence factor of successful accomplishment within this decade... We agree with the Manned Spacecraft Center that the designs of a maneuverable hyperbolic re-entry vehicle and of a lunar landing vehicle constitute the two most critical tasks in producing a successful lunar spacecraft. A drastic separation of these two functions is bound to greatly simplify the development of the spacecraft system."

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NEW VERSION with more improved video & sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB7AA7B9hTI more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved sound and video, and all in one piece instead of parts. "Discusses the groundwork conducted by the NASA JSC's Mission Planning and Analysis Division in perfecting lunar rendezvous techniques. Normal, as well as abort, rendezvous situations are demonstrated." NASA film JSC-344 Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). PROJECT APOLLO PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html On July 11, 1962 NASA announced that the Lunar Orbit Rendezvous mode would be used the manned lunar landing mission... The Lunar Orbit Rendezvous mode for lunar landing missions had been first suggested within NASA and the US aerospace industry in 1960... Dr. John C. Houbolt, assistant chief of the Dynamic Loads Division at Langley Research Center, was the leading expert on rendezvous in space. In early 1960, Houbolt realized the advantages of Lunar Orbit Rendezvous, and thereafter became its principle advocate. But convincing others at NASA that LOR was the best way to go would take almost two and a half years. To begin with, most engineers felt that any scheme involving rendezvous was too complicated and risky; therefore they preferred "direct ascent" plans which would required at least a Saturn C-8 (with a 12 million pounds thrust 1st stage, 8 F-1 engines) or an even larger "Nova" class launch vehicle. ...it gradually became obvious that the enormous rocket required to accomplish a direct ascent mission could not possibly be available in time. So the majority of engineers changed their preference to an Earth Orbit Rendezvous (EOR) plan... Both direct ascent and EOR presented difficulties in spacecraft design: 1. For one vehicle to make the trip, land on the moon, return to Earth, and a portion of it reenter the Earth's atmosphere would have required a far larger spacecraft than the eventual Apollo CSM and LM combined. The fuel for the return to Earth, and the reentry capsule, would have to be carried to the lunar surface and back up to orbit. This much larger, heavier spacecraft would be far more difficult to land on the moon than a smaller, lighter one would be. 2. The shape of such a dual-purpose craft was troublesome. Pilots need to see where they are going. How could a single craft be designed which would allow the pilots to look down at the lunar surface, while allowing them to recline facing upward during ascent to Earth orbit and, later, while reentering the Earth's atmosphere? Solutions were suggested, but none were satisfactory. Enchanted Rendezvous: John C. Houbolt and... Lunar Orbit Rendezvous..., Monograph 4 (1995) For these reasons, by late 1961, engineers at the Manned Spacecraft Center had begun to support Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. And by the spring of 1962 some key officials at NASA Headquarters in Washington were also sold on LOR. However, unanimity was desired, and the Saturn launch vehicle design engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama, led by Wernher von Braun, still preferred Earth Orbit Rendezvous. In mid May, Joseph F. Shea, Deputy Director of the Office of Manned Space Flight, informed Von Braun that it was likely that LOR was going to be selected. This would likely result in less work for Von Braun's Marshall Space Flight Center, but, according to Shea, Von Braun was assured that efforts would be made to give MSFC more work. The turning point came on June 7, 1962, when, after 6 hours of MSFC engineers presenting their case for EOR to Shea, Von Braun surprised his own "rocket team" by declaring that they now preferred Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. Von Braun said: "...It is absolutely mandatory that we arrive at a definite mode decision within the next few weeks, preferably by the first of July, 1962... If we do not make a clear-cut decision on the mode very soon, our chances of accomplishing the first lunar landing expedition in this decade will fade away rapidly... "We believe [Lunar Orbit Rendezvous] offers the highest confidence factor of successful accomplishment within this decade... We agree with the Manned Spacecraft Center that the designs of a maneuverable hyperbolic re-entry vehicle and of a lunar landing vehicle constitute the two most critical tasks in producing a successful lunar spacecraft. A drastic separation of these two functions is bound to greatly simplify the development of the spacecraft system."

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This NASA technology video is structured to show the developments of all three NASA programs (Mercury, Gemini, Apollo) that lead the United States to the physical exploration of the Moon, which began when Luna 2, a space probe launched by the Soviet Union, made an impact on the surface of the Moon on September 14, 1959. Prior to that the only available means of exploration had been observation from Earth. The invention of the optical telescope brought about the first leap in the quality of lunar observations. Galileo Galilei is generally credited as the first person to use a telescope for astronomical purposes; having made his own telescope in 1609, the mountains and craters on the lunar surface were among his first observations using it. NASA's Apollo program was the first, and to date only, mission to successfully land humans on the Moon. The first landing took place in 1969, when astronauts placed scientific instruments and returned lunar samples to Earth. To learn more on NASA's exploration of the moon online, goto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_the_Moon FOLLOW on: https://www.facebook.com/documentarytube.net https://twitter.com/DocArchive THE LOST ARCHIVES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1DCxbhUP-M&list;=PLCIsViWU6sLnbOl2yVaWRzADY-c06z4UA

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This NASA technology video is structured to show the developments of all three NASA programs (Mercury, Gemini, Apollo) that lead the United States to the physical exploration of the Moon, which began when Luna 2, a space probe launched by the Soviet Union, made an impact on the surface of the Moon on September 14, 1959. Prior to that the only available means of exploration had been observation from Earth. The invention of the optical telescope brought about the first leap in the quality of lunar observations. Galileo Galilei is generally credited as the first person to use a telescope for astronomical purposes; having made his own telescope in 1609, the mountains and craters on the lunar surface were among his first observations using it. NASA's Apollo program was the first, and to date only, mission to successfully land humans on the Moon. The first landing took place in 1969, when astronauts placed scientific instruments and returned lunar samples to Earth. To learn more on NASA's exploration of the moon online, goto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_the_Moon FOLLOW on: https://www.facebook.com/documentarytube.net https://twitter.com/DocArchive THE LOST ARCHIVES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1DCxbhUP-M&list;=PLCIsViWU6sLnbOl2yVaWRzADY-c06z4UA

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The epic story of the golden years of American space exploration, told by the men who rode the rockets On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was born. Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975. They spent the 1960s at the forefront of NASA's effort to conquer space, and Moon Shot is their inside account of what many call the twentieth century's greatest feat—landing humans on another world.

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Project Apollo playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/ A 1975 summary of the entire Apollo moon landing program narrated by Burgess Meredith. NASA film HQ-229 Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module (LM) on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Command/Service Module (CSM), and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24. Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in December 1972. In these six spaceflights, twelve men walked on the Moon. Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, with the first manned flight in 1968. It achieved its goal of manned lunar landing, despite the major setback of a 1967 Apollo 1 cabin fire that killed the entire crew during a prelaunch test. After the first landing, sufficient flight hardware remained for nine follow-on landings with a plan for extended lunar geological and astrophysical exploration. Budget cuts forced the cancellation of three of these. Five of the remaining six missions achieved successful landings, but the Apollo 13 landing was prevented by an oxygen tank explosion in transit to the Moon, which damaged the CSM's propulsion and life support. The crew returned to Earth safely by using the Lunar Module as a "lifeboat" for these functions. It used Saturn family rockets as launch vehicles, which were also used for an Apollo Applications Program, which consisted of Skylab, a space station that supported three manned missions in 1973–74, and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, a joint Earth orbit mission with the Soviet Union in 1975. Apollo set several major human spaceflight milestones. It stands alone in sending manned missions beyond low Earth orbit. Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to orbit another celestial body, while the final Apollo 17 mission marked the sixth Moon landing and the ninth manned mission beyond low Earth orbit. The program returned 842 pounds (382 kg) of lunar rocks and soil to Earth, greatly contributing to the understanding of the Moon's composition and geological history. The program laid the foundation for NASA's current human spaceflight capability, and funded construction of its Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center. Apollo also spurred advances in many areas of technology incidental to rocketry and manned spaceflight, including avionics, telecommunications, and computers... NASA, Apollo, moon landing, lunar landing, space program, moon program, Lunar Module, LM, CM, CSM, Apollo 11, Apollo 17, Saturn V, Saturn IB,

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This NASA documentary from the early 1960's explains the steps that would need to be taken to place men on the moon and return them safely to earth, a feat first completed in 1969 during the Apollo 11 mission. The film opens with footage from early Project Mercury launches, then uses animation to explain the design concepts and features of the Saturn rockets, Apollo Command Module and Lunar Landing Module. In 2014 NASA celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. Note: any comments stating the moon landings were a hoax may be removed and user blocked. WDTVLIVE42 - Transport, technology, NASA and general interest movies from the past - newsreels, documentaries & publicity films from my archives. #Space

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more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Explains factors that determined launch windows for Project Apollo lunar landing missions, including lighting angles on the moon, planes of motion, available fuel, etc. NASA film JSC-336 from the Manned Spacecrat Center (Johnson Space Center) Mission Planning and Analysis Division. Reupload of a previously uploaded film with more improved sound and video. Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). PROJECT APOLLO PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_window In the context of spaceflight, a launch window is a time period during which a particular vehicle (rocket, Space Shuttle, etc.) must be launched in order to reach its intended target. If the rocket is not launched within the "window", it has to wait for the next window. For trips into largely arbitrary Earth orbits, any time will do. But if the spacecraft intends to rendezvous with a space station (such as the International Space Station) or another vehicle already in an orbit, the launch must be carefully timed to occur around the times that the target vehicle's orbital plane intersects the launch site. Earth observation satellites are often launched into sun-synchronous orbits which are near-polar. For these orbits, the launch window occurs at the time of day when the launch site location is aligned with the plane of the required orbit. To launch at another time would require an orbital plane change manoeuvre which would require a large amount of propellant. For launches above low Earth orbit (LEO), the actual launch time can be somewhat flexible if a parking orbit is used, because the inclination and time the spacecraft initially spends in the parking orbit can be varied... To go to another planet using the simple low-energy Hohmann transfer orbit, if eccentricity of orbits is not a factor, launch windows are periodic according to the synodic period; for example, in the case of Mars, the period is 2.135 years, (780 days). In more complex cases, including the use of gravitational slingshots, launch windows are irregular. Sometimes, rare opportunities arise, such as when Voyager 2 took advantage of a 175-year planetary alignment (launch window) to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. When such an opportunity is missed, another target may be selected. For example, the ESA's Rosetta mission was originally intended for comet 46P/Wirtanen, but a launcher problem delayed it and a new target had to be selected (comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko). Launch windows are often calculated from porkchop plots, which show the delta-v needed to achieve the mission plotted against the launch time. Specific issues Space Shuttle missions to the International Space Station were restricted by beta angle cutout. Beta angle (\beta) is defined as the angle between the orbit plane and the vector from the Sun. Due to the relationship between an orbiting object's beta angle (in this case, the ISS) and the percent of its orbit that is spent in sunlight, solar power generation and thermal control are affected by that beta angle. Shuttle launches to the ISS were normally only attempted when the ISS was in an orbit with a beta angle of less than 60 degrees.

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more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reupload of a previously uploaded film with more improved sound and video. "Records life and work on the first manned flight of the Apollo series. Apollo 7 was designated to make the essential test of the Apollo spacecraft before the ambitious lunar-orbital mission could be attempted. All systems respond perfectly. The first television from space highlights the film." NASA film JSC-498 Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_7 Apollo 7 was the first manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, and the first manned US space flight after a cabin fire killed the crew of what was to have been the first manned mission, AS-204 (later renamed Apollo 1), during a launch pad test in 1967. It was a C type mission—an 11-day Earth-orbital mission, the first manned launch of the Saturn IB launch vehicle, and the first three-person US space mission. The crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with Command Module Pilot Donn F. Eisele, and Lunar Module Pilot R. Walter Cunningham. The mission was the first manned test of the redesigned Block II Apollo Command/Service Module. It flew in Earth orbit so the crew could check life-support, propulsion, and control systems. Despite tension between the crew and ground controllers, the mission was a technical success, which gave NASA the confidence to launch Apollo 8 around the Moon two months later. However, the flight would prove to be the last space flight for all of its three crew members. It was also the final manned launch from what was then known as Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida ... Mission highlights Apollo 7 was a test flight, and confidence-builder. After the January 1967 Apollo launch pad fire, the Apollo Command Module had been extensively redesigned. Schirra, who would be the only astronaut to fly Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, commanded this Earth-orbital shakedown of the Command and Service Modules. Since it was not carrying a Lunar Module and only needed to reach a low earth orbit, Apollo 7 could be launched with the Saturn IB booster rather than the much larger and more powerful Saturn V. Schirra wanted to name the Apollo 7 Command module "Phoenix" (the mythical bird rising from its own ashes) in memory of the late Apollo 1 crew, but NASA management rejected the idea... The Apollo hardware and all mission operations worked without any significant problems, and the Service Propulsion System (SPS), the all-important engine that would place Apollo into and out of lunar orbit, made eight nearly perfect firings. Even though Apollo's larger cabin was more comfortable than Gemini's, 11 days in orbit took its toll on the astronauts. Tension with Schirra began with the launch decision, when flight managers decided to launch with a less than ideal abort option for the early part of the ascent. Once in orbit, the spacious cabin may have induced some crew motion sickness, which had not been an issue in the earlier, smaller spacecraft. The crew was also unhappy with their food selections. But the worst problem occurred when Schirra developed a severe head cold. As a result, he became irritable with requests from Mission Control and all three astronauts began "talking back" to the Capcom... Exchanges such as this led to all three Apollo 7 crew members being rejected for future missions. Despite these difficulties, the mission successfully met its objective of verifying manned flight capability of the Apollo Command and Service Modules, allowing the flight of Apollo 8 to the Moon just two months later. Beyond a shakedown of the spacecraft, goals for the mission included the first live television broadcast from an American spacecraft (Gordon Cooper had broadcast slow scan television pictures from Faith 7 in 1963) and testing the mock LM docking maneuver which involved rendezvous with the launch vehicle's discarded upper stage (referred to by Schirra in the above conversation.) The splashdown point was 27 deg 32 min N, 64 deg 04 min W, 200 nautical miles (370 km) SSW of Bermuda and 7 nmi (13 km) north of the recovery ship USS Essex. Apollo 7 was the only manned Apollo launch to take place from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station's Launch Complex 34. All subsequent Apollo and Skylab missions (including Apollo-Soyuz) were launched from Launch Complex 39 at the nearby Kennedy Space Center, and Launch Complex 34 was retired. As of 2012, Cunningham is the only surviving member of the crew. Eisele died in 1987 and Schirra in 2007...

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more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved sound and video, and all in one piece instead of parts. "Astronauts: Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young, and Eugene A. Cernan Launch date: May 18, 1969 Records the accomplishment of the basic mission of Apollo 10 - to uncover and solve the few remaining problems before lunar landing. The Lunar Module descends to within 50,000 feet of the Moon. Includes photography of the Moon from high and low orbits." NASA film JSC-519 Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and 1-pass exposure & color correction applied (cannot be ideal in all scenes). The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). PROJECT APOLLO PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10 Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program. It was an F type mission—its purpose was to be a "dry run" for the Apollo 11 mission, testing all of the procedures and components of a Moon landing without actually landing on the Moon itself. The mission included the second crew to orbit the Moon and an all-up test of the lunar module (LM) in lunar orbit. The LM came to within 8.4 nautical miles (15.6 km) of the lunar surface during practice maneuvers. According to the 2002 Guinness World Records, Apollo 10 set the record for the highest speed attained by a manned vehicle at 39,897 km/h (11.08 km/s or 24,791 mph) during the return from the Moon on May 26, 1969. Due to the use of their names as call signs, the Peanuts characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy became semi-official mascots for the mission. Peanuts creator Charles Schulz also drew some special mission-related artwork for NASA... Mission highlights This dress rehearsal for a Moon landing brought Stafford and Cernan's lunar module Snoopy to 8.4 nautical miles (15.6 km) from the lunar surface. The low approach orbit was to refine the lunar gravitational potential needed to calibrate the powered descent guidance system to within 1-nautical-mile (1.9 km) (LR altitude update lock) needed for a landing. Earth-based observations, unmanned spacecraft, and Apollo 8 respectively had allowed calibration to 200 nautical miles (370 km), 20 nautical miles (37 km), and 5 nautical miles (9.3 km). Except for that final stretch, the mission went exactly as a landing would have gone, both in space and on the ground, putting Apollo's extensive tracking and control network through a dry run. Shortly after leaving low Earth orbit, the command/service module separated from the S-IVB stage, turned around, and docked its nose to the top of the lunar module still nestled in the S-IVB. The CSM/LM stack then separated from the S-IVB for the trip to the Moon. Apollo 10 was the first to carry a color television camera inside the spacecraft, and made the first live color TV broadcasts from space. Upon reaching lunar orbit, Young remained alone in the command module Charlie Brown while Stafford and Cernan flew separately in the LM. The LM crew checked out their craft's radar and ascent engine, rode out a momentary gyration in the lunar lander's motion (due to a faulty switch setting), and surveyed the Apollo 11 landing site in the Sea of Tranquility. NASA took special precaution to ensure Stafford and Cernan would not attempt to make the first landing. According to Cernan, "A lot of people thought about the kind of people we were: 'Don't give those guys an opportunity to land, 'cause they might!' So the ascent module, the part we lifted off the lunar surface with, was short-fueled. The fuel tanks weren't full. So had we literally tried to land on the Moon, we couldn't have gotten off." The fueled Apollo 10 LM weighed 30,735 pounds (13,941 kg), compared to 33,278 pounds (15,095 kg) for the Apollo 11 LM which made the first landing. Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean on May 26, 1969 at 16:52:23 UTC, approximately 400 nautical miles (740 km) east of American Samoa. The astronauts were recovered by the USS Princeton, and subsequently flown to Pago Pago International Airport in Tafuna for a greeting reception, before being flown on a C-141 cargo plane to Honolulu. Hardware disposition The LM Snoopy's descent stage was left in orbit, but eventually crashed onto the lunar surface because of the Moon's non-uniform gravitational field; its location was not tracked. After being jettisoned, Snoopy's ascent stage flew on a trajectory past the Moon into a heliocentric orbit, making it the sole intact Lunar Module ascent stage remaining of the 10 LMs sent into space... The Command Module Charlie Brown is currently on loan to the Science Museum in London...

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Project Apollo - NASSP (also known as NASSP or NCPP) is an add-on for the Orbiter space flight simulator. Project Apollo simulates the Apollo missions to Earth orbit and the Moon, and is slowly expanding to simulate planned post-Apollo missions that never flew. Project Apollo features a near-full implementation of the control panels in the Command Module and Lunar Module, and an increasingly accurate simulation of the internal systems (e.g. electrical distribution, fuel cells). Also the Virtual AGC software is supported, which allows you to run precisely the same on-board guidance software as used by the real Apollo Guidance Computer. This video shows the launch of Apollo 8 with the currently being developed simulation of the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC++) and a Mode III Abort at 11:00 GET. From the "Operational Abort Plan For The Apollo 8 Mission": The mode III abort procedures are required for contingencies that occur beyond mode II (R greater than 3200 n. mi.) when a safe orbit cannot be achieved or when SC systems malfunctions dictate immediate landings. The first mode III requirement is unlikely because of the large COI region and because the LV cutoff conditions would have to be greatly dispersed from the nominal launch trajectory. The second requirement is unlikely because if such a malfunction had occurred during launch the abort would more probably be initiated before mode III was entered, and failures that occur after mode III is entered would be almost impossible to confirm in sufficient time to recommend a mode III abort. Mode III abort capability begins at the end of mode II when the full-lift landing range exceeds 3200 n.mi. (600 seconds g.e.t.). Since mode III entries are half lift (RL55) and the SPS retrograde burn is only required to achieve a landing range of 3350 n.mi., there exists a period (between 600 and 624 seconds g.e.t.) for which the no-burn landing would land west of the 3350-n.mi. landing target (ADRA). The mode III capability ends once the required SPS burn violates the 100-second tff [time to 300k feet] constraint. This occurs approximately 2 seconds prior to the S-IVB cutoff signal and suborbital aborts required after that time would require terminating the burn on tff = 100 seconds and then a zero lift (RL90) entry to avoid a land landing. Checklist for Mode III Abort: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/ap15fj/csmlc/4-04.gif http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/ap15fj/csmlc/4-05.gif Orbiter Downloads: Orbiter 2010: http://orbitersimulator.com/orbiter-2010-downloads/ Orbiter DX9 Graphics Upgrade: http://d3d9client.codeplex.com/ Orbiter Sound 4.0: http://orbiter.dansteph.com/forum/index.php?page=download Project Apollo - NASSP: http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page NASSP development snapshots: https://github.com/dseagrav/NASSP/releases

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Project Apollo Mission Planning: "Fly Me to the Moon--And Back" 1966 NASA MPAD

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NEW VERSION with more improved video & sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp75tsE1XuI more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html The work of the NASA Houston Manned Spacecraft Center 's Mission Planning and Analysis Division for Project Apollo. "Explains the complexity of planning a lunar mission trajectory. Includes mission analysis, new mathematical techniques, hybrid computers, mission operational plan, and real-time support for the NASA JSC's Mission Operations Control Room." NASA film JSC-315 Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved sound and video, and all in one piece instead of parts. Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and 1-pass exposure & color correction applied (cannot be ideal in all scenes). The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). PROJECT APOLLO PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Task_Group The Space Task Group was a working group of NASA engineers created in 1958, tasked with superintending America's manned spaceflight programs. It was headed by Robert Gilruth and based at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. After President John F. Kennedy set the goal of the Apollo Program to land men on the Moon in 1961, NASA decided a much larger organization and a new facility was required to perform the Task Group's function, and it was transformed into the Manned Spacecraft Center (now the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center), located in Houston, Texas ... History Created on November 5, 1958, the Space Task Group was headed by Robert Gilruth. Originally it consisted of 45 people, including eight secretaries and "computers" (the term for women who ran calculations on mechanical adding machines). Of its 37 engineers, 27 were from Langley Research Center and ten had been assigned from Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Original members of the group included Charles Donlan, Gilruth's deputy; Max Faget, head of engineering; Chuck Mathews, head of flight operations; Chris Kraft, also in flight operations; and Glynn Lunney, who at 21 was the youngest member of the group. The head of the public affairs office was John "Shorty" Powers. In 1959, the group was expanded by the addition of 32 engineers from Canada, who had been left without jobs when the Avro Arrow project was cancelled. These new additions, Canadians and some British, included Jim Chamberlin, George Harris, John Hodge, Owen Maynard, Bryan Erb, Rodney Rose and Tecwyn Roberts. After President John F. Kennedy set the national goal on May 25, 1961 of landing men on the Moon by the end of the 1960s, it became clear to NASA administrator James E. Webb that Gilruth would need a much larger organization and facilities, in fact a new dedicated NASA center, to administrate US manned space programs. Webb got the approval of Kennedy and the Congress, and in August 1961 appointed a team to select a site for the new center. On September 19, Webb announced the new Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) would be built on a Houston, Texas site donated by Rice University. Gilruth immediately began the transition of his Task Group into the new MSC, planning his increased staff organization and its move to Houston, using temporary leased office and test facility space on 12 sites while the new facility was being built. By September 1962, his organization was moved to Houston and construction had begun, effectively marking the end of the Task Group. The MSC facility was completed in September 1963... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson_Space_Center ...Construction of the center, designed by Charles Luckman, began in April 1962, and Gilruth's new organization was formed and moved to the temporary locations by September. That month, Kennedy gave a speech at Rice University on the US space program. The speech is famous for highlighting the Apollo program, but Kennedy also made reference to the new Center... The 1,620-acre (6.6 km2) facility was officially opened for business in September 1963. The facility was to be the primary flight control center for all subsequent U.S. manned space missions from Project Gemini forward. The MSC's Mission Control Center first became operational for the flight of Gemini 4 in June 1965. In addition to housing NASA's astronaut operations, JSC is also the site of the former Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where the first astronauts returning from the moon were quarantined, and where the majority of lunar samples are stored. The center's Landing and Recovery Division operated MV Retriever in the Gulf of Mexico for Gemini and Apollo astronauts to practice water egress after splashdown...

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Project Apollo: "Lunar Orbit Rendezvous" 1968 NASA Mission Planning and Analysis Division

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NEW VERSION with more improved video & sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB7AA7B9hTI more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved sound and video, and all in one piece instead of parts. "Discusses the groundwork conducted by the NASA JSC's Mission Planning and Analysis Division in perfecting lunar rendezvous techniques. Normal, as well as abort, rendezvous situations are demonstrated." NASA film JSC-344 Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). PROJECT APOLLO PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html On July 11, 1962 NASA announced that the Lunar Orbit Rendezvous mode would be used the manned lunar landing mission... The Lunar Orbit Rendezvous mode for lunar landing missions had been first suggested within NASA and the US aerospace industry in 1960... Dr. John C. Houbolt, assistant chief of the Dynamic Loads Division at Langley Research Center, was the leading expert on rendezvous in space. In early 1960, Houbolt realized the advantages of Lunar Orbit Rendezvous, and thereafter became its principle advocate. But convincing others at NASA that LOR was the best way to go would take almost two and a half years. To begin with, most engineers felt that any scheme involving rendezvous was too complicated and risky; therefore they preferred "direct ascent" plans which would required at least a Saturn C-8 (with a 12 million pounds thrust 1st stage, 8 F-1 engines) or an even larger "Nova" class launch vehicle. ...it gradually became obvious that the enormous rocket required to accomplish a direct ascent mission could not possibly be available in time. So the majority of engineers changed their preference to an Earth Orbit Rendezvous (EOR) plan... Both direct ascent and EOR presented difficulties in spacecraft design: 1. For one vehicle to make the trip, land on the moon, return to Earth, and a portion of it reenter the Earth's atmosphere would have required a far larger spacecraft than the eventual Apollo CSM and LM combined. The fuel for the return to Earth, and the reentry capsule, would have to be carried to the lunar surface and back up to orbit. This much larger, heavier spacecraft would be far more difficult to land on the moon than a smaller, lighter one would be. 2. The shape of such a dual-purpose craft was troublesome. Pilots need to see where they are going. How could a single craft be designed which would allow the pilots to look down at the lunar surface, while allowing them to recline facing upward during ascent to Earth orbit and, later, while reentering the Earth's atmosphere? Solutions were suggested, but none were satisfactory. Enchanted Rendezvous: John C. Houbolt and... Lunar Orbit Rendezvous..., Monograph 4 (1995) For these reasons, by late 1961, engineers at the Manned Spacecraft Center had begun to support Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. And by the spring of 1962 some key officials at NASA Headquarters in Washington were also sold on LOR. However, unanimity was desired, and the Saturn launch vehicle design engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama, led by Wernher von Braun, still preferred Earth Orbit Rendezvous. In mid May, Joseph F. Shea, Deputy Director of the Office of Manned Space Flight, informed Von Braun that it was likely that LOR was going to be selected. This would likely result in less work for Von Braun's Marshall Space Flight Center, but, according to Shea, Von Braun was assured that efforts would be made to give MSFC more work. The turning point came on June 7, 1962, when, after 6 hours of MSFC engineers presenting their case for EOR to Shea, Von Braun surprised his own "rocket team" by declaring that they now preferred Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. Von Braun said: "...It is absolutely mandatory that we arrive at a definite mode decision within the next few weeks, preferably by the first of July, 1962... If we do not make a clear-cut decision on the mode very soon, our chances of accomplishing the first lunar landing expedition in this decade will fade away rapidly... "We believe [Lunar Orbit Rendezvous] offers the highest confidence factor of successful accomplishment within this decade... We agree with the Manned Spacecraft Center that the designs of a maneuverable hyperbolic re-entry vehicle and of a lunar landing vehicle constitute the two most critical tasks in producing a successful lunar spacecraft. A drastic separation of these two functions is bound to greatly simplify the development of the spacecraft system."

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NASA's Classified Mercury, Gemini, Apollo Missions (1080p, 60fps)

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This NASA technology video is structured to show the developments of all three NASA programs (Mercury, Gemini, Apollo) that lead the United States to the physical exploration of the Moon, which began when Luna 2, a space probe launched by the Soviet Union, made an impact on the surface of the Moon on September 14, 1959. Prior to that the only available means of exploration had been observation from Earth. The invention of the optical telescope brought about the first leap in the quality of lunar observations. Galileo Galilei is generally credited as the first person to use a telescope for astronomical purposes; having made his own telescope in 1609, the mountains and craters on the lunar surface were among his first observations using it. NASA's Apollo program was the first, and to date only, mission to successfully land humans on the Moon. The first landing took place in 1969, when astronauts placed scientific instruments and returned lunar samples to Earth. To learn more on NASA's exploration of the moon online, goto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_the_Moon FOLLOW on: https://www.facebook.com/documentarytube.net https://twitter.com/DocArchive THE LOST ARCHIVES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1DCxbhUP-M&list;=PLCIsViWU6sLnbOl2yVaWRzADY-c06z4UA

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Animated Project Apollo Manned Flight To The Moon 1963 - ANIMAÇÃO Apollo vôo tripulado à Lua INGLÊS

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Animated. Shows the principal steps taken by NASA to place men on the moon and get them back safely within this decade.

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Rohin's 1st Grade Video Project "Apollo 14" Sep 2016

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Apollo Soyuz Project EP

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Project CARS vs Forza Motorsport 4 - Gumpert Apollo S Graphics & Sound Comparison

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157 Apollo 11 Project Apollo Moon Landing Highlights for Astrodome Ceremony 1989 NASA

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The Apollo Project Kickoff

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This video is a recording of the Apollo Project Liftoff community meeting held at Orem High School on September 8, 2016. The Apollo Project is an initiative within Alpine School District to prepare students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to succeed in the 21st Century. Through the integration of STEAM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics), we build students’ abilities to problem solve, collaborate, innovate, and think critically. The Engineering Design Process is the vehicle that makes this initiative possible. The Engineering Design Process is a pattern for powerful creativity and problem solving that provides students with hands-on, minds-on experiences. Whether they are designing a water filtration system or a maglev train, the Engineering Design Process puts students at the helm of powerful learning.

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Lunar Orbit Rendezvous for Project Apollo 1962 NASA; Basic Moon Landing Mission Plan

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Project Apollo playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D6A4FBE35C88581 more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html An early overview of an Apollo moon landing mission, created soon after Lunar Orbit Rendezvous, instead of direct ascent or Earth Orbit Rendezvous, was chosen as the mission method in July, 1962. The configuration of the Saturn C-5 (later Saturn-V) launch vehicle was determined in December 1961. "The Apollo spacecraft will consist of three modules: the manned Command Module; the Service Module, which contains propulsion systems; and the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) to carry astronauts to the moon and back to the Command and Service Modules. The spacecraft will be launched via a three-stage Saturn booster. The first stage will provide 7.5 million pounds of thrust from five F-1 engines for liftoff and initial powered flight. The second stage will develop 1 million pounds of thrust from five J-2 engines to boost the spacecraft almost into Earth orbit. Immediately after ignition of the second stage, the Launch Escape System will be jettisoned. A single J-2 engine in the S4B stage will provide 200,000 pounds of thrust to place the spacecraft in an earth parking orbit. It also will be used to propel the spacecraft into a translunar trajectory, then it will separate from the Apollo Modules. Onboard propulsion systems will be used to insert the spacecraft into lunar orbit. Two astronauts will enter the LEM, which will separate from the command and service modules. The LEM will go into elliptical orbit and prepare for landing. The LEM will lift off of the Moon's surface to return to the Command and Service Modules, and most likely be left in lunar orbit. After leaving the Moon's orbit, and shortly before entering Earth's orbit, the Service Module will be ejected. The Command Module will be oriented for reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. A drogue parachute will deploy at approximately 50,000 feet, followed by the main parachute system for touchdown." Reupload of a previously uploaded film with improved video & sound. Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html To begin with, most engineers felt that any scheme involving rendezvous was too complicated and risky; therefore they preferred "direct ascent" plans which would required at least a Saturn C-8 (with a 12 million pounds thrust 1st stage, 8 F-1 engines) or an even larger "Nova" class launch vehicle. After President Kennedy made his "before this decade is out" speech, it gradually became obvious that the enormous rocket required to accomplish a direct ascent mission could not possibly be available in time. So the majority of engineers changed their preference to an Earth Orbit Rendezvous (EOR) plan. This would have used two or more launch vehicles (probably Saturn Vs). One would launch the spacecraft, and the other carry fuel which would be transferred to the craft in Earth orbit. Or the spacecraft and fuel might be launched in segments which would be joined together in Earth orbit Both direct ascent and EOR presented difficulties in spacecraft design: 1. For one vehicle to make the trip, land on the moon, return to Earth, and a portion of it reenter the Earth's atmosphere would have required a far larger spacecraft than the eventual Apollo CSM and LM combined. The fuel for the return to Earth, and the reentry capsule, would have to be carried to the lunar surface and back up to orbit. This much larger, heavier spacecraft would be far more difficult to land on the moon than a smaller, lighter one would be. 2. The shape of such a dual-purpose craft was troublesome. Pilots need to see where they are going. How could a single craft be designed which would allow the pilots to look down at the lunar surface, while allowing them to recline facing upward during ascent to Earth orbit and, later, while reentering the Earth's atmosphere? Solutions were suggested, but none were satisfactory. Enchanted Rendezvous: John C. Houbolt and... Lunar Orbit Rendezvous..., Monograph 4 (1995) http://history.nasa.gov/monograph4.pdf Remarks by Wernher von Braun about Mode Selection for the Lunar Landing Program, 7 June 1962 http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Apollomon/apollo6.pdf

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Apollo 12 - End of Day 1 (Full Mission 05)

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Apollo 12 - End of Day 1 (Full Mission 05) This video covers the 9 to 24 hour point in the Apollo 12 mission. It includes P23s and PTC maneouvres, along with the cew re-entering the LM to check electrical systems and earth descriptions as well as earth and moon photography. The first day ends and the overnight reports come in from the PAO. All photos and audio are courtesy of NASA. All animated sequences are recorded from Orbiter Space Simulator. My thanks to Gary Scott, Apollo 13 INCO, for his invaluable insight and knowledge and continuing support for this project.

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THE APOLLO PROGRAM - SPACE DOCUMENTARY 2016

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INFO: The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module (LM) on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Command/Service Module (CSM), and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24. Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in December 1972. In these six spaceflights, twelve men walked on the Moon. Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, with the first manned flight in 1968. It achieved its goal of manned lunar landing, despite the major setback of a 1967 Apollo 1 cabin fire that killed the entire crew during a prelaunch test. After the first landing, sufficient flight hardware remained for nine follow-on landings with a plan for extended lunar geological and astrophysical exploration. Budget cuts forced the cancellation of three of these. Five of the remaining six missions achieved successful landings, but the Apollo 13 landing was prevented by an oxygen tank explosion in transit to the Moon, which damaged the CSM's propulsion and life support. The crew returned to Earth safely by using the Lunar Module as a "lifeboat" for these functions. It used Saturn family rockets as launch vehicles, which were also used for an Apollo Applications Program, which consisted of Skylab, a space station that supported three manned missions in 1973–74, and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, a joint Earth orbit mission with the Soviet Union in 1975. Apollo set several major human spaceflight milestones. It stands alone in sending manned missions beyond low Earth orbit. Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to orbit another celestial body, while the final Apollo 17 mission marked the sixth Moon landing and the ninth manned mission beyond low Earth orbit. The program returned 842 pounds (382 kg) of lunar rocks and soil to Earth, greatly contributing to the understanding of the Moon's composition and geological history. The program laid the foundation for NASA's current human spaceflight capability, and funded construction of its Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center. Apollo also spurred advances in many areas of technology incidental to rocketry and manned spaceflight, including avionics, telecommunications, and computers. FOLLOW US: https://www.facebook.com/DeepSpaceTvOfficial/

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NASA: Apollo 40th Anniversary Documentary "The Journeys of Apollo"

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This is the documentary we produced to mark the 40th anniversary of the Apollo lunar landing. It covers the full scope of the Apollo program and features interviews with many of the Apollo astronauts. The narrator is Transformer's Peter Cullen. For more information about Apollo, visit http://www.nasa.gov/apollo

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Apollo 11 in RSS / Project Alexandria-16 / KSP 1.0.4

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This is the history of real spaceflight using Real Solar System. This episode contains material related to: Apollo 11 Launch - July 16, 1969, 13:32:00 UTC Docking - July 16, 1969, 16:56:03 UTC Moon Orbit - July 19, 1969, 17:21:50 UTC Undocking - July 20, 1969, 17:44:00 UTC Landing - July 20, 1969, 20:18:04 UTC First Step - July 21, 1969, 02:56 UTC Departure - July 21, 1969, 17:54 UTC Docking - July 21, 1969, 21:35:00 UTC Undocking - July 21, 1969, 23:41:31 UTC Return - July 24, 1969, 16:50:35 UTC Forum pages: Alexandria: http://goo.gl/slDlEF Odyssey: http://goo.gl/Wq5Urp Gateway: http://goo.gl/9PznwT Turbo Time AMA: http://goo.gl/ryC77q Git repo: http://goo.gl/K3PNkt Additional footage from, and special thanks to: HBO, From the Earth to the Moon Universal Pictures, Apollo 13 History Channel, Creation of the Moon JPL, Evolution of the Moon Music in this video might be from one or more of these sources: http://incompetech.com http://www.bensound.com https://machinimasound.com http://www.twinmusicom.org http://audionautix.com https://soundcloud.com YouTube "free" PowerDirector "free" All licensed under CC:By https://creativecommons.org/licenses

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In rare cases, brain damage has unlocked prodigious mental abilities in patients. Now researchers are exploring the hidden potential in all of us. Supported by. About this content. @mocost. On 13 September, 2002, 31-year-old Jason Padgett, a furniture salesman from Washington, was beaten and mugged by two men after leaving a karaoke bar. He survived the vicious attack, but was left unconscious, and sustained a severe concussion ... Read more ... ....

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Fashion CEO, wife sue construction company over botched $600K renovations

Edit New York Post 24 Sep 2016

... house for allegedly failing to perform “virtually every aspect of the project,” court papers charge ... “Apollo grossly failed to perform virtually every aspect ....

Admitted to hospital, Jayalalithaa recovers well

Edit Deccan Chronicle 24 Sep 2016

Ms Jayalalithaa, 68, was admitted to Apollo Hospitals on Greams Road in the heart of Chennai on Thursday after she complained of fever and dehydration. “The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu was admitted last night in Apollo Hospitals, Chennai for fever and dehydration ... The Chief Minister’s health has been stable since she was admitted to the hospital, Apollo Hospitals said....

Jayalalithaa condition stable, say docs; party workers flock to temples

Edit The Times of India 24 Sep 2016

Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, who was admitted to Apollo Hospitals in Chennai on Thursday night after she complained of fever and dehydration, has responded well to treatment, doctors said ... Apollo Hospitals Group Chairman Prathap C Reddy arrived around 4 pm and spent a little more than an hour at the hospital....

AIADMK denies Jayalalithaa will be flown to Singapore for treatment

Edit Deccan Chronicle 24 Sep 2016

Jayalalithaa, 68, was admitted to Apollo Hospitals on Greams Road in the heart of Chennai on Thursday after she complained of fever and dehydration ... “The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu was admitted last night in Apollo Hospitals, Chennai for fever and dehydration ... The Chief Minister’s health has been stable since she was admitted to the hospital, Apollo Hospitals said....

Jayalalithaa remains under doctor’s observation

Edit The Hindu 24 Sep 2016

“The honourable Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu is under observation,” a medical bulletin from Apollo Hospitals Chief Operating Officer Subbiah Viswanathan said....

Traffic snarls around Apollo Hospital

Edit The Hindu 24 Sep 2016

The city witnessed massive traffic snarls on Friday around Apollo Hospitals on Greames Road, as AIADMK cadre thronged the hospital to get a glimpse of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa ... The arterial Anna Salai too witnessed heavy traffic ... Vijaylakshmi, whose husband was undergoing a surgery at Apollo Hospitals, said, “My husband needed O positive blood ... Doctors at Apollo, however, said there was no disruption in patient services ... ....

Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa to be released tomorrow from hospital

Edit DNA India 24 Sep 2016

--> dna Web Team . Sat, 24 Sep 2016-01.20pm , dna webdesk. "She is very healthy, no problem at all ... She is under observation," Apollo Hospital's Chief Operating Officer Subbiah Viswanathan said in a press release ... The 68-year-old AIADMK chief was taken to Apollo Hospital after she complained of fever ... dna Web Team. ....

CM still in hospital, but no fever now

Edit The Hindu 24 Sep 2016

. Admitted to Apollo Hospitals late Thursday night with fever and dehydration, Chief Minister and AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa continues to be under observation there. Hospital sources said she was stable ... “Honorable Madam has no fever now and is taking a normal diet,” said Subbiah Viswanthan, chief operating officer, Apollo. In the bulletin, he added that she was still under observation ... Karunanidhi and his son M.K ... ....

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