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How Apollo flew to the Moon /
"David Woods tells the exciting story of how the Apollo flights were conducted by following a virtual flight to the Moon and back. From launch to splashdown, he hitches a ride in the incredible spaceships that took men to another world, exploring each step of the journey and detailing the enorm...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York : Chichester, U.K. :
Springer Verlag ; Published in association with Praxis Pub.,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of illustrations
- Author's preface
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- 1. Apollo : an extraordinary adventure
- The meaning of Apollo
- Dreaming of the Moon
- The Apollo spaceship
- Which way?
- Lunar orbit rendezvous
- Equipment
- Swords to ploughshares : von Braun's rockets
- 2. The Apollo flights : a brief history
- An alphabet of missions
- Failure of imagination
- Back in the saddle : Apollo 4
- The lunar module flies : Apollo 5
- The Saturn balks : Apollo 6
- Testing block II : Apollo 7
- Gutsy decisions : Apollo 8
- A complete system test : Apollo 9
- A dress rehearsal : Apollo 10
- Task accomplished : Apollo 11
- LIghtning strikes : Apollo 12
- The successful failure : Apollo 13
- Try again : Apollo 14
- Exploration at its greatest : Apollo 15
- The last hurrah : Apollo 17
- Goodbye Apollo.
- 3. Launch : a fiery departure
- Preparations for launch
- Lift-off
- Getting through the atmosphere
- Second stage
- Third stage
- 4. Earth orbit and TLI
- Settling into orbit
- Around the world in 90 minutes
- Coasting around Earth
- The route to the Moon
- 5. Retrieving the lander
- Leaving Earth
- Transposition, docking and extraction
- "No latch, Houston"
- The fate of the S-IVB
- 6. Navigating to the Moon
- Crossing cislunar space
- Ground-based tracking
- Navigation from the spacecraft
- The guidance and navigation system
- 7. Coasting to the Moon
- Three men in a submarine
- Sustaining life
- The personal bit
- Cool air
- PTC : spacecraft on a spit
- Stirring the tanks : genesis of a failure
- Communications
- Telly from the Moon
- Checking the lunar module
- 8. Entering lunar orbit : the LOI manoeuvre
- The service module
- How not to crash into the Moon
- Lunar encounter
- The LOI PAD : it isn't magic
- The black void
- Luna close up : burning LOI.
- 9. Preparations for landing
- Overjoyed
- The second arrival burn
- How not to crash into the Moon
- The joys of lunar orbit
- In the descent orbit
- Entering the lunar module
- Continuing preparations
- Undocking
- 10. Next stop : the Moon
- :Go for the Pro" : the landing begins
- Slowing down : P63
- "Hey, there it is!" : pitchover and P64
- "Picking up some dust" : P66
- 11. Orbital sojourn : looking at the Moon
- Luna cognita
- Unmanned probes
- Apollo reaches the Moon
- Science station in lunar orbit
- 12. Rendezvous and docking
- Orbital mechanics
- We have lift-off ... from the Moon!
- Rendezvous techniques
- Braking and station-keeping
- A long day
- The role of mission control
- Epitaph for the lunar module
- 13. Heading for home
- Mission accomplished ... nearly
- Trans-EArth injection
- Subsatellite
- The TEI PAD : a worked example
- Counting down to the burn
- The long fall to Earth
- A walk outside : EVA.
- 14. Re-entry
- A fiery return
- IN we come : entry from start to finish
- The entry PAD : a worked example
- Entry REFSMMAT
- Final four hours
- Last hour
- Human shooting star : P63
- Ensuring capture : P64
- Aiming for the ships : P67
- Splashdown
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Further reading
- Index.