By David M. Harland, Richard W. Orloff
ISBN-10: 0387300430
ISBN-13: 9780387300436
This e-book presents an outline of the origins of the Apollo software and outlines of the floor amenities, release autos and spacecraft that have been built within the quest to arrive – and go back from - the skin of the moon. it's going to function a useful single-volume sourcebook for area fanatics, area historians, reporters, and others. The textual content incorporates a entire number of tables directory evidence and figures for every challenge.
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Do we have a chance of beating the Soviets by putting a laboratory in space, or by a trip around the Moon, or by a rocket to land on the Moon, or by a rocket to go around the Moon and back with a man? '' He demanded a response ``at the earliest possible moment''. At a press conference on 21 April Kennedy pointed out that his administration was considering the options and cost of space. '' At a meeting of the Space Council on 24 April, Lyndon Johnson, as Wiesner later related, ``went around the room saying, `We've got a terribly important decision to make.
Wiesner's report had been prepared during the transition and, its title notwithstanding, it addressed both the space and missile programs. In fact, in urging more effort on large launch vehicles and downplaying the significance of the manned space program, the report was consistent with Eisenhower's view that large boosters were a national priority and that project Mercury represented a sufficient response to the perceived insult of Sputnik. On 20 January Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th President of the United States of America.
In view of the fact that a rendezvous rehearsal, and the proof of its viability, would not be feasible until at least 1964, the primary effort should be directed toward developing the superbooster required for the direct ascent mode. On 15 December Boeing was hired to manufacture the first stage of the `advanced Saturn' at Michoud, and on 20 December the Douglas Aircraft Corporation was authorized to start planning the refit of the S-IV stage to use a single J-2 engine. On 21 December Holmes created the Manned Space Flight Management Council.
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