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Apollo project

Apollo project

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
US space project to land a person on the Moon, achieved on 20 July 1969, when Neil Armstrong was the first to set foot there. He was accompanied on the Moon's surface by Buzz Aldrin ; Michael Collins remained in the orbiting command module. The programme was announced in 1961 by US president John F Kennedy. The world's most powerful rocket, Saturn V (see Saturn rocket ), was built to launch the Apollo spacecraft, which carried three astronauts. When the spacecraft was in orbit around the Moon, two astronauts would descend to the surface in the lunar module to take samples of rock and soil and set up experiments that would send data back to Earth. After four preparatory flights, Apollo 11 made the first lunar landing. Five more crewed landings followed, the last in 1972. The total cost of the programme was over US$24 billion. The Apollo -Saturn rocket complex stood 111 m/364 ft tall. Saturn's first stage separated and second stage fired at 72 km/45 mi; the third stage ignited at 177…
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Full text Article Apollo programme

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Apollo programme The Saturn V rocket, carrying...
Name given to the US programme to land men on the Moon and return them safely to Earth. The cost of the NATIONAL AERONAUTIC AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 's (NASA's) triumph in the Moon race with the Soviet Union was US$25 billion. At its peak, the programme employed some 500,000 people. The first public…
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Full text Article Apollo Project

From Science Encyclopedia: Encyclopedia of Space and Astronomy
Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin...
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy proposed that the United States establish as a national goal a human lunar landing and safe return to Earth by the end of the decade. In response to this presidential initiative, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) instituted the Apollo…
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Full text Article Apollo project

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
US space project to land a person on the Moon, achieved on 20 July 1969, when Neil Armstrong was the first to set foot there. He was accompanied on the Moon's surface by Buzz Aldrin ; Michael Collins remained in the orbiting command module. The programme was announced in 1961 by US president John F…
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Full text Article APOLLO Project

From The Encyclopedia of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
On July 20, 1969, millions of people around the world watched in awe as U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped from his spider-legged spacecraft to set foot on the Moon. It was, as Armstrong proclaimed to the television cameras, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Or was it? In 1991…
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Full text Article Apollo–Soyuz Project

From Chambers Dictionary of World History
A landmark joint space mission conducted by the USA and USSR in July 1975, following an agreement signed by President Richard Nixon and Premier Alexei Kosygin in May 1972. A project of the period of US–Soviet détente , Apollo–Soyuz also demonstrated the capability for joint operations between the…
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Full text Article Webb, James E.

From Science Encyclopedia: Encyclopedia of Space and Astronomy
(b. 1906–d. 1992) NASA administrator James E. Webb was the second administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the American civilian space agency formally established on October 1, 1958, under the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958. As the leader of NASA, he…
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Full text Article Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP)

From Science Encyclopedia: Encyclopedia of Space and Astronomy
The joint United States–Soviet Union space mission that took place in July 1975. The mission centered around the rendezvous and docking of the Apollo 18 spacecraft (three astronaut crew: Thomas P. Stafford, Vance Brand, and Deke Slayton, Jr.) and the Soyuz 19 spacecraft (two cosmonaut crew: Alexei…
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Full text Article Saturn

From Science Encyclopedia: Encyclopedia of Space and Astronomy
A launch vehicle is a rocket-propelled vehicle...
Family of expendable launch vehicles developed by NASA (Wernher von Braun's team at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama) to support the Apollo Project. The Saturn 1B was used initially to launch Apollo lunar spacecraft into Earth orbit to help the astronauts train for the crewed…
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