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by Nancy Atkinson


  Lunar Mission Steering Group on Trajectories and Guidance

  Lunar Mode Decision Conference

  Lunar Module guidance computer (LGC)

  Lunar Module (LM)

  Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR)

  Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL)

  Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV)

  Lunney, Glynn

  Lunney, Jenny

  Lunney, Marilyn

  M

  Manley, Rich

  Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC)

  Manned Space Flight Management Council

  Mariner 2 spacecraft

  Marquardt Company

  Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)

  Mars Probe

  “mascons”

  Matthews, Charles

  Mattingly, Ken

  maximum dynamic pressure

  McCafferty, Riley

  McCandless, Bruce

  McCraw, Dave

  McDivitt, James

  McDonnell Douglas

  McLane, James, Jr.

  Mercury program

  Mercury Control Center (MCC)

  Mercury Tracking and Ground Instrumentation Unit

  Michael, William, Jr.

  Miller, Harold

  Mission Control

  Mission Evaluation Room (MER)

  Mission Evaluator

  Mission Logic and Computer Hardware

  Mission Operations Computer (MOC)

  Mission Planning and Analysis Division

  Mission Rules

  Mitchell, Edgar D.

  Mobile Quarantine Facility

  Modularized Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA)

  Modularized Equipment Transporter (MET)

  moonwalks

  Moore, David

  Moser, Tom

  motion sickness

  Motorola, Inc.

  Mueller, George E.

  N

  NASA Technical Notes

  National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)

  Neubauer, Jack

  Nixon, Richard M.

  North American Aviation

  North American Rockwell

  Nova rocket

  O

  Oberth, Hermann

  Office of Space Flight Programs

  Orbit Attitude and Maneuver System (OAMS)

  Orion spacecraft

  Osgood, Catherine

  Osgood, Donald

  Otten, Hank

  Outer Space Treaty

  Owens-Corning Fiberglass

  P

  Paine, Tom

  Painter, John

  Painter, Joy

  “Paul”

  Phillips, Samuel C.

  Pilotless Aircraft Research Division (PARD)

  plaque

  pogo effect

  Pohl, Henry

  Powers, Shorty

  pressure vessels

  Purser, Paul

  R

  Ragan, Ralph

  Ranger missions

  Rayburn, Sam

  Raytheon company

  RCA

  Reaction Control System (RCS)

  Real Time Computer Complex (RTCC)

  recovery

  Redstone rockets

  Reed, Dave

  reentry

  re-entry control system (RCS) thrusters

  Reini, Bill

  Rendezvous Analysis Branch

  rendezvous and docking

  Rendezvous Evaluation Pod (REP)

  Research Steering Committee on Manned Space Flight

  Retrofire officers

  Riley, Jack

  Riorden, Jim

  Roberts, Tecwyn

  Rockwell International

  Roosa, Stuart A.

  Rose, Rod

  S

  samples

  Saturn rockets

  Sawyer, Ralph

  Scheufelen Paper Company

  Schirra, Wally

  Schmitt, Harrison

  Schweickart, Rusty

  Scientific Experiment Package

  Scott, David R.

  Seamans, Eugenia

  Seamans, Robert C.

  See, Elliot

  Service Module (SM)

  Shea, Joe

  Shelley, Carl

  Shepard, Alan B., Jr.

  Silver, George

  Silverstein, Abe

  Simulation Checkout and Training System

  Simulation Supervisors (SimSups)

  Simulation Task Group (Sim Group)

  Slayton, Deke

  Smathers, George

  Smith, Frances

  Society of Experimental Test Pilots

  Soviet Union

  Spacecraft Research Division

  Space Environment Simulation Laboratory (SESL)

  Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network

  Space Ground Link

  Space Mission Simulation Facility

  Space Notes

  Space Shuttle

  Space Task Group

  Space Vehicle Group

  Sputnik satellite

  Stabilization and Control System

  Stafford, Tom

  Staff Support Rooms (SSR)

  “stay-no stay” decisions

  St. Clair, Douglas

  Stone, Ralph

  Storms, Harrison “Stormy”

  Sullivan, Leslie

  Surveyor spacecraft

  Swigert, John (Jack), Jr.

  T

  Technical Notes

  television

  Thermochemical Test Area

  Thibodaux, Guy

  Thomas, Albert

  Thompson, Floyd

  Tindall, Bill

  Tindall, Jane

  Titan rocket

  Tower, John

  Trageser, Milt

  Trajectory and Orbit Panel

  U

  Unified S-Band (USB) system

  USNS Longview

  USS Bennington

  USS Essex

  USS Guadalcanal

  USS Hornet,

  USS Kearsarge

  USS Leonard F. Mason

  USS Wasp

  USS Yorktown

  V

  Vanguard rockets

  Varson, W. Paul

  Vaughan, Chester

  Vibration and Acoustic Test Facility

  Vomit Comet

  W

  Webb, James E.

  Wendt, Guenter

  West Ranch

  Whirlwind computer

  White, Edward

  White, Pat

  Widnall, Bill

  Williams, Clifton

  Williams, Walt

  Wills, John

  Wood, Bill

  Woodfill, Jerry

  Worden, Alfred M.

  Wren, Bob

  Y

  Young, John

  Young, Ken

  Z

  Zedeker, Ray

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  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  APOLLO 50TH ANNIVERSARY AND THE COSMIC PERSPECTIVE

  PROLOGUE

  CHAPTER 1: 1962

  CHAPTER 2: 1963

  CHAPTER 3: 1964

  CHAPTER 4: 1965

  CHAPTER 5: 1966

  CHAPTER 6: 1967

  CHAPTER 7: 1968

  CHAPTER 8: 1969

  CHAPTER 9: APOLLO 11

  EPILOGUE: APOLLO 12-17

  ACRONYM REFERENCE GUIDE

  SOURCES FOR EIGHT YEARS TO THE MOON

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  INDEX

  Copyright © 2019 Nancy Atkinson

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