A Brief Statistical Look at Apollo



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Contents

NARRATIVE OVERVIEW3

APOLLO HISTORY3

APOLLO 11 FLIGHT PLAN INFORMATION5

APOLLO 12 FLIGHT PLAN6

APOLLO 13 FLIGHT PLAN6

APOLLO 14 FLIGHT PLAN7

APOLLO 15 FLIGHT PLAN8

APOLLO 16 FLIGHT PLAN9

APOLLO 17 FLIGHT PLAN10

STATISCAL ANALYSIS11

SERVICE MODULE (SM)12

COMMAND AND SERVICE MODULE (CSM)12

LUNAR MODULE (LM)13

ALSEP (APOLLO LUNAR SCIENCE TRIAL PACKAGE)15

CONCLUSION16

A Brief Statistical Look at Apollo

Narrative Overview

This paper will present a comparison of flight plan information of space missions carried out under the Apollo Program. In 1961, NASA established the Apollo program to develop the technology needed for a lunar landing. Two years later, it launched Project Gemini, which sent astronauts into orbit to perform tasks that would help prepare them for the duties they would face on a moon flight. The Gemini and Apollo programs carried out more than 20 space flights in preparation for a manned flight to the moon.

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon and astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the lunar surface. NASA has contributed to the advancement of knowledge of space and to the improvement of human life on earth. Great accomplishments in the fields of biology, medicine, engineering, management, robotics, foods, and materials have brought a vast number of products to the world. These include everything from Teflon, to Tang, to orange juice, to communications satellites, to ear thermometers, to space suit technology used in numerous medical situations. NASA has conducted many biological experiments.

From these have come microspheres that are used to clean oil spills and treat tumors. Great advances in plastics, foods, and firefighting equipment have come out of NASA's work. On January 15, 2004, President George W. Bush called for renewal of the goal of manned missions to the planets.

The achievement of the Apollo Project relaxed on the development of the Saturn series of launch vehicles, and, in specific the Saturn V moon rocket.

Apollo history

NASA managers had to select between three modes of getting astronauts to and from the lunar surface: direct ascent, Earth-orbit rendezvous, and lunar-orbit rendezvous. Direct ascent intended dispatching a lone spacecraft on a directly shot from Earth's exterior to the Moon's exterior with sufficient propellant for the come back excursion, and could only be finished with the development of a gigantic new rocket renowned as the Nova.

Apollo 11 Flight Plan Information 

The air travel design for Apollo 11 was a minute-by-minute time line of undertakings for the operation crew--Neil Armstrong, microphone Collins, and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin--and Mission command in Houston. The flight was commenced July 16, 1969. Touchdown on the moon took place, as arranged, on July 20, 102 hours, 47 minutes, and 11 seconds after launch from Cape Kennedy. The astronauts expended 21 hours and 36 minutes on the moon, and returned to soil on July 24. The 363-foot-tall Apollo 11 space vehicle was launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, at 8:32 a.m. EST, July 16, 1969. It was the joined States' first lunar setting down mission. The launch vehicle, AS-506, was the sixth in the Apollo Saturn V sequence and was the fourth manned Saturn V vehicle. After a 2½-hour checkout time span, the spacecraft was injected into the translunar stage of the mission.

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