Astronomy - USA (2020-04)

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 21 was gonna open up to shut off the power and keep the heat down. But when it came up, the higher voltage wel ...

22 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2020 Then, of course, things started to happen. Astronomy: When you saw the gas venting from the command mo ...

To^ the^ Moon Earth Moon Launch April 11, 1970 2:13 P.M. EST Trans-lunar injection 2:35:46 Earth parking orbit Saturn V third st ...

24 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2020 everything down below. You’re gonna be like landing in a saucer of milk. So we’re gonna get you off th ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 25 the Moon and I could see that it’s not the one I saw on Apollo 8. It’s a lot smaller. [But] that’s fine wit ...

26 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2020 Astronomy: What were your thoughts as you splashed down in the Pacific and you knew that you had made ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 27 spacecraft, the command module, which was the only thing left of Apollo 13, really, was in a ware- house do ...

28 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2020 A near-tragedy in space challenged the crew of Apollo 13. They missed walking on the Moon, but in the ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 29 BY THE SPRING OF 1970, the Apollo program was rolling along at full speed. The first landing, and subsequen ...

30 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2020 political issues, Deke Slayton, the Director of Flight Crew Operations, reconfigured the crew to consi ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 31 planned altitude of 100 nautical miles (185 km) above Earth in a circular park- ing orbit. Then, some two h ...

32 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2020 shut down and temporarily abandon the command module, saving it for an Earth reentry. They also opted ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 33 integrity of the service module, and whether its engines would be safe to use in a rescue scenario. So they ...

34 ASTRONOMY • APRIL 2020 LM descent engine, which lasted four and a half minutes, only two small course corrections would be ma ...

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