Titles describing these pages refer to LM activities only. And Bill Hess was absolutely convinced - and was right - that, as soon as the contingency package existed, they'd take the ALSEP off of Apollo 11. Español: Descripción: el astronauta Buzz Aldrin, piloto del módulo lunar, camina sobre la superficie de la Luna cerca de la pata del módulo lunar (LM) Eagle durante el paseo lunar del Apolo 11 (EVA). So what was happening during Apollo 11, as I recall, was that repeated jobs to process rendezvous radar data (that of course were not really there) were scheduled because a misconfiguration of the radar switches. So, by the end of Apollo 10, we will have three options for Apollo 11.' Thus, the core sets got filled up and a 1202 alarm was generated. Cold War. Similarly, if no core sets were available, the program would branch to Alarm/Abort and set Alarm 1202. Wiedergegeben mit Erlaubnis des Herausgebers des Journals Eric M. Jones . By the time they disappeared behind the Moon for the fourteenth time, they were suited and undocked, and just minutes away from the 30-second burn that would put the LM on the Apollo 10 descent trajectory down to 50,000 feet. After his lunar flight, Evans served as backup Command Module Pilot for the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz joint flight and then transferred to the Shuttle program prior to his retirement from NASA in 1977. Down to 50,000 feet above the Moon, Apollo 11 was little different from 10. From the Apollo 11 Image Library S69-21698 Apollo 11 crew and a Navy diver await pickup after splashdown. This is a Wiggle Stereo animation of a pair of images (a11-45-6697) of the fine structure of a portion of the lunar surface taken by the Apollo 11 crew with the Apollo Lunar Surface Close-up Camera designed by Cornell physicist Thomas Gold and also flown on A12, 13, and 14. Generally, they walked without bounding and, compared with later crews, their movements seem fairly stiff and restricted. And he'd been nervous about that. The Eagle Prepares to Land Ranger 9 was the last of the Ranger series of spacecraft launched in the 1960s to explore the moon and was designed to image and impact the moon's crater Alphonsus. For sixteen minutes they looked out the windows and timed the passage of landmarks below them (across a scale marked on Armstrong's window) to confirm the tracking data that Houston was getting. There was no doubt in Armstrong's mind about landing in the boulder field. If I were to reboot now, all of those programs would be closed down. Another copy of... Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. --July 20, Landing site: Sea of Tranquility. Traduction du Apollo Lunar Surface Journal de l'anglais au français,et d'autres langues, a commencé au début de 2010. Two hours and thirty one minutes after they first opened the hatch, Armstrong and Aldrin reported it closed again. Indeed, during training, Armstrong had to eject from one of the LLTV's. Well, my position was that they were going to do that anyway and, if you didn't have something, you weren't going to get anything. The Apollo 11 "landing ellipse" contains dozens of craters a hundred meters across or more, and the important point is that the LM had enough maneuverability and propellant so that Armstrong could avoid even the largest of them. But the next morning, Tom called me and said that George had changed his mind. Site Selection; Preparing for the Descent; The Lunar First Landing; Preparing to Go Outside ; One Small Step; Deploying the Scientific Equipment; Closing Out the EVA. Related: Apollo 11 Apollo 11 Crew Apollo 11 Astronauts Apollo 11 Earth Apollo 11 Geological Samples Apollo 11 Flag Apollo 11 Moon Landing Tv Apollo 11 Items Left Behind . And so I had this on my draft charts. With so little Erasable memory available, we were forced to use the same memory address for different purposes at different times. I mean, at that same time, some people were saying 'Well, maybe we ought to just have one guy go out on an umbilical; it's too dangerous.' However, as with later crews, as time passed, their confidence grew. Pages Liked by This Page. We knew we had plenty of time after coming around the limb, the tracking had been done (on Apollo 10), and we'd seen the sight close up (from 9 miles rather than 60). Vorbereitung zum Ausstieg. Asking questions like that is the way a science advisory committee can really contribute to the process, and the PSAC forced NASA to think things through. Even with the computers to help, landing a LM was a tricky operation, one that required countless hours of training in indoor simulators and in an ungainly "flying bedstead" called - more formally - the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle. There were no seats in the LM. If, from a practical point of view, Apollo 11 was a demonstration flight, a point of departure for the more sophisticated missions that would follow, it was still the one for the history books. And when we left the room, George had indicated that he didn't think it was a good idea. Erasable memory was used for variable data, counters, and the like. Coming back toward the camera for a second time, he tried a kangaroo hop but decided that it didn't give him as much fore/aft stability as he got with the loping gait. As they came down through 75 feet, Duke radioed that they had sixty seconds of fuel left and, in the cabin, Aldrin had already seen a warning light that was telling him the same thing. The PSAC - the President's Scientific Advisory Committee which was chaired by Charlie Townes - asked NASA for a set of briefings that would detail how the first lunar landing mission would be conducted. We haven't seen anything like this! René et Lorraine Cantin coordonnent le projet de francisation du Journal. At that time the only thing NASA really had ever done in any detail was the so-called design reference mission. If Windows was a smart as the Apollo LGC executive, after the reboot the CD might not be playing and WordPerfect might not be there, but I would come back to this message composition window, with the same text displayed, and Quicken would have my checking account open to the proper place. Armstrong, Aldrin, and Command Module Pilot Mike Collins had a flawless launch from Earth, a long, uneventful coast out to the Moon, and a nominal engine burn to put themselves into lunar orbit. Armstrong had killed almost all of their forward velocity and now, as they began to kick up dust with the engine exhaust, he asked Aldrin to confirm that they were still moving forward a little. In fact, NASA didn't do it; Grumman did it. Last revised 28 July 2002. On Apollo 12, 15, and 16, the Lunar Surface Magnetometer was included in the ALSEP experiment package. This is the crater Neil Armstrong mentions during his final descent onto the lunar surface. Comparison of values of the specific radioactivities reported for lunar surface material from the Apollo 11 mission with analogous data for stone meteorites suggests that energetic particles from the solar flare of 12 April 1969 may have produced most of the cobalt-56 observed. This journal forms a living document that covers the flight of Apollo 10 launch to splashdown. Centuries ago, early lunar observers thought that the Moon had continents and oceans and that it was a possible abode of lif… The Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the Lunar Module (LM) Eagle approximately 60 meters west of Little West Crater on July 20, 1969. Nonetheless, it was the smallest margin of all the Apollo landings. START. Science Experiments - Lunar Surface Magnetometer The magnetic field of the Moon was measured at four Apollo landing sites. The long hours of training paid off, of course. If a job required more temporary storage, the scheduling request asked for a VAC - vector accumulator - which had 44 erasable words. Within seconds, he had slowed his rate of descent from about twenty feet per second down to about three and flew the LM about 1100 feet west beyond the craters and the boulders. He stood on the pad for a moment or two, testing the soil with the tip of his boot before he made the epochal "small step". In his commentary on the Apollo 17 transcript, Gene Cernan says that, in his experience, landing a jet on an aircraft carrier at night is more difficult than landing the LM. Later crews would have more time to adapt and, building on the Apollo 11 experience, would do their work with greater and greater confidence. Apollo Lunar Surface Journal The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal is a record of the lunar surface operations conducted by the six pairs of astronauts who landed on the Moon from 1969 through 1972.i The Journal is intended as a resource for anyone wanting to know what happened during the missions and why. Still, the LM was an experimental craft and the vehicle that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed was only the fourth that had ever been flown. The NASA guys in the MOCR knew - because MIT had extensively tested the restart capability - that the mission could go forward. A tilt of up to fifteen degrees would cause no particular problem with a launch. Aldrin gave him the confirmation that he wanted and, eight seconds later, they saw the contact light. There would never be anything quite like making that first footprint on another world but then, too, there was still a long way to go before humanity could claim to be more than temporary visitors to the Moon. 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