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
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