Building Moonships: The Grumman Lunar ModuleArcadia Publishing, 2004 - 128 pagine In 1961, after the United States had acquired a total of fifteen minutes of spaceflight experience, President John F. Kennedy announced his plans for landing a man on the moon by 1970. The space race had begun. In 1962, after a strenuous competition, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation of Bethpage, Long Island, had won the contract to build the lunar module-the spacecraft that would take Americans to the moon. This was the first, and the only, vehicle designed to take humans from one world to another. Although much has been written about the first men to set foot on the moon, those first hesitant steps would not have been possible without the efforts of the designers and technicians assigned to Project Apollo. Building Moonships: The Grumman Lunar Module tells the story of the people who built and tested the lunar modules that were deployed on missions as well as the modules that never saw the light of day. This is the first publication to chronicle the visual history of the design, construction, and launch of the lunar module-one of the most historic machines in all of human history. |
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AFT EQUIPMENT BAY aluminum APOLLO 13 APOLLO 17 ARTIST'S CONCEPT ascent stage Assembly astronauts Bethpage built Buzz Aldrin Cape Kennedy clean room COCKPIT Cold Flow Test COMMAND MODULE complete LM construction Courtesy of Northrop deployed DESCENT ENGINE docking hatch Earth orbit ECHO SATELLITE exploration fixture flight footpads FUEL TANK Grumman History Center GRUMMAN LUNAR installed ladder landing gear landing legs LANDING RADAR launch LIFTOFF LM descent stage LM design LM program LM-5 EAGLE LOGO LUNAR MODULE LUNAR MODULE ADAPTER lunar orbit rendezvous lunar roving vehicle lunar surface mated MICROMETEOROID MICROMETEOROID SHIELD midsection mission MODULE'S Molab NASA NASA's Neil Armstrong Northrop Grumman History OUTRIGGER OXIDIZER TANK PANEL Photograph Courtesy Project Apollo propulsion system reaction control RENDEZVOUS RADAR rocket engine Ross Fleisig Saturn V rocket SERVICE MODULE space SPACECRAFT LUNAR MODULE technicians TEST STAND THERMAL AND MICROMETEOROID thermal blanket THRUST thruster TM-1 MOCK-UP Tom Kelly vacuum WERNHER VON BRAUN
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