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Remembering Apollo 11: The 30th Anniversary Data Archive CD-ROMOn July 20, 1969, the human race accomplished its single greatest technological achievement of all time when a human first set foot on another celestial body. Six hours after landing at 4:17 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (with less than thirty seconds of fuel remaining), Neil A. Armstrong took the "small step" into our greater future when he stepped off the Lunar Module, named Eagle, onto the surface of the Moon, from which he could look up and see Earth in the heavens as no one had done before him. He was shortly joined by Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and the two astronauts spent twenty-one hours on the lunar surface and returned forty-six pounds of lunar rocks. After their historic walks on the Moon, they successfully docked with Michael Collins, patiently orbiting the cold but no longer lifeless Moon alone in the Command module Columbia. This CR-ROM is intended as a collection of hard to find technical data and other interesting information about the Apollo 11 mission, as well as the apollo program in general. It includes basic overviews, such as a retrospective analysis, an annotated bibliography, and history of the lunar-orbit rendezvous concept. It also contains technical data, such as mission operations reports, press kits, and news references for all of the Apollo missions, the Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn V launch vehicle. Rounding out this CD-ROM are extensive histories of the lunar Orbiter program (the robotic predecessor to Apollo, biographies of the Apollo astronauts and other key individuals, and interesting audio-visual materials, such as video and audio clips, photo galleries, and blueprint-like diagrams of the Apollo spacecraft.
Document ID
20000034931
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Other - NASA Publication (NP)
Authors
Edgar M Cortright
(National Aeronautics and Space Administration Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)
Date Acquired
August 29, 2013
Publication Date
July 1, 1999
Publication Information
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Subject Category
General
Report/Patent Number
NASA-NP-1999-06-249-HQ
NONP-NASA-CD-2000047914
NAS 1:83-06-249-HQ
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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