%0 Book

%T How Apollo flew to the moon

%A Woods, W. David

%I Springer

%@ 9780387716756

%K Project Apollo (U.S.)

%K Project Apollo (U.S.) History

%K Astronautics History

%K Space flight to the moon History

%K Space flight to the moon

%K Space flight

%K Apollo-Programm

%K Mondflug

%D 2008

%X 14.Re-entry -- Afiery return -- IN we come : entry from start to finish -- Theentry 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.

%X List of illustrations -- Author's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1.Apollo : an extraordinary adventure -- Themeaning of Apollo -- Dreaming of the Moon -- TheApollo spaceship -- Which way? -- Lunar orbit rendezvous -- Equipment -- Swords to ploughshares : von Braun's rockets -- 2. TheApollo flights : a brief history -- Analphabet of missions -- Failure of imagination -- Back in the saddle : Apollo 4 -- Thelunar module flies : Apollo 5 -- TheSaturn balks : Apollo 6 -- Testing block II : Apollo 7 -- Gutsy decisions : Apollo 8 -- Acomplete system test : Apollo 9 -- Adress rehearsal : Apollo 10 -- Task accomplished : Apollo 11 -- LIghtning strikes : Apollo 12 -- Thesuccessful failure : Apollo 13 -- Try again : Apollo 14 -- Exploration at its greatest : Apollo 15 -- Thelast hurrah : Apollo 17 -- Goodbye Apollo

%X 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 -- Theroute to the Moon -- 5.Retrieving the lander -- Leaving Earth -- Transposition, docking and extraction -- "No latch, Houston" -- Thefate of the S-IVB -- 6.Navigating to the Moon -- Crossing cislunar space -- Ground-based tracking -- Navigation from the spacecraft -- Theguidance and navigation system -- 7.Coasting to the Moon -- Three men in a submarine -- Sustaining life -- Thepersonal 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 -- Theservice module -- How not to crash into the Moon -- Lunar encounter -- TheLOI PAD : it isn't magic -- Theblack void -- Luna close up : burning LOI

%X 9.Preparations for landing -- Overjoyed -- Thesecond arrival burn -- How not to crash into the Moon -- Thejoys 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 -- Along day -- Therole of mission control -- Epitaph for the lunar module -- 13.Heading for home -- Mission accomplished... nearly -- Trans-EArth injection -- Subsatellite -- TheTEI PAD : a worked example -- Counting down to the burn -- Thelong fall to Earth -- Awalk outside : EVA

%C Springer

%C Berlin

%U http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2