Category: 1967 Lunar Module

Mar 17, 1969

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Mar 17 1969

When America’s first two-man team lands on the moon, one of their first tasks will be to obtain a sample of lunar material as quickly as possible in event they have to make an emergency takeoff. If things go well, they will spend 25 hours on the surface, gathering up to 80 pounds of rocks, dust and other material to be put into vacuum-sealed containers. This sketch shows one astronaut gathering samples from a crater while his companion watches from the lunar module. Later, the two will roam up to 300 feet from the craft, working on a “buddy” system, to plant several measuring devices on the surface which will radio information to earth.

 MAR 17 1969 COPYRIGHT, SEATTLE TIMES CO.

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Apollo 9 Storyboard

Launch Day

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Top Left: Flight Crew Preparation
Top Right: Orbital Insertion
Middle Left: 103 N. Mile Orbit
Middle Right: Separation
Bottom Left: Docking
Bottom Right: Docked SPS Burn

Second Day

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Top Left: Landmark Tracking
Top Right: Pitch Maneuver
Bottom Left: Yaw-Roll Maneuver
Bottom Right: High Apogee Orbits

Third Day

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Left: Crew Transfer
Right: LM System Evaluation

Fourth Day

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Top Left: Camera
Top Right: Day-Night EVA
Bottom Left: Golden Slippers
Bottom Right: TV – Texas, Florida

Fifth Day

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Top Left: Vehicles Undocked
Top Right: Burns For Rendezvous
Middle Left: Maximum Separation
Middle Right: APS Burn
Bottom Left: Formation Flying And Docking
Bottom Right: LM Jettison Ascent Burn

Sixth Thru Ninth Days

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Left: Service Propulsion Burns
Right: Landmark Sightings, Photograph Special Tests

Tenth Day

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Top Left: CM/SM Separation
Top Right: Re-Entry

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Snoopy & Charlie Brown

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Apollo 12

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Image source: Mike Acs

Apollo 17

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Deployment Sequence

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Image source: Ed Dempsey

Apollo 16 at Decartes

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Image credit: Grumman
Image source: Mike Acs

S69-38662

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S69-38662 (July 1969) — A Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation’s artist concept depicting mankind’s first walk on another celestial body. Here astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 commander, is making his first step onto the surface of the Moon. Armstrong has just egressed Lunar Module (LM) 5. Still inside the LM is astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot. Astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remains with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit. In the background is the Earth, some 240,000 miles away.

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