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launch vehicle/fuel tanks
joystick
landing sites
launch
launch preparation
life support system, portable (PLSS)
lunar extra-vehicular visor assembly (LEVA)
lunar orbit insertion (LOI)
LOI-2
lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR)
lunar orbit, getting into
lunar orbit, leaving
meals
mission patch
Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF)
modular equipment stowage assembly (MESA)
Official Flight Kit
'parking orbit'
passive thermal control (PTC)
personal preference kits (PPKs)
PR and press
primary guidance and navigation system (PGNS)
readiness review
re-entry and landing
rendezvous
rest periods
rockets
see also
Saturn V
rules, mission
selection process for mission
service module
solar wind collector (SWC)
stack ('space vehicle')
suits, pressure
toilet facilities
training for mission
trans-lunar injection (TLI)
pictures, TV and camera
UFO sighting, possible
water supply
Apollo 12
Apollo 13
Apollo 14
Apollo 16
Apollo 17
Apollo Spacecraft Program Office
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Armstrong, Eric ('Ricky')
Armstrong, Janet
Armstrong, Karen
Armstrong, Mark
Armstrong, Neil
Aldrin and
ambition to be an astronaut
Apollo 8
career post-Apollo
college
Collins and
early life
Ed White and
Gemini flights
heart rate on landing, Apollo 11
landing on/descent to the moon (DOI) (PDI), Apollo 11
launch, Apollo 11
launch preparation, Apollo 11
lunar landing research vehicle and
lunar orbit insertion, Apollo 11
moon walk, Apollo 11
navy service
on chances of survival, Apollo 11
'one small step' line
pictures, TV and camera, Apollo 11
position in Apollo program
PR duties, Apollo 11
quarantine, Apollo 11
re-entry and landing, Apollo 11
rendezvous techniques
return to
Eagle
, Apollo 11
return to earth, Apollo 11
selected for Apollo 11
selected to be first man to walk on the moon
test pilot
training
undocking, Apollo 11
view from Apollo 11
X-15
Armstrong, Stephen
Armstrong, Viola
Bales, Steve
Bassett, Charlie
Bassett, Jeannie
Bean, Alan
Bell Aerosystems
Belyaev, Pavel
Beregovoi, Georgi
Bondarenko, Valentin
Borman, Frank
Braun, Dr Wernher von
Brown, Dick
Calle, Paul
CapCom
see also
Mission Control Center, Houston
Cape Kennedy
see
Kennedy Space Center
Carlton, Bob
Carpentier, Bill
Cernan, Gene
Chaffee, Roger
Charlesworth, Cliff
CIA
Cobb, Jerrie
Cold War
see also
Soviet Union
Collins, Major General James
Collins, Michael
Air Force
Apollo Project, position within
Buzz Aldrin and
career post-NASA
childhood
command module pilot (CMP)
Gemini flights
joins NASA
launch preparation, Apollo 11
lunar orbit insertion (LOI), Apollo 11
LOI-2, Apollo 11
meals on Apollo 11
moon, on appearance of
moon orbit, Apollo 11
Neil Armstrong and
pictures, TV and camera, Apollo 11
pressure suits, hatred of
quarantine, Apollo 11
re-entry and landing, Apollo 11
return to earth, Apollo 11
selected for mission, Apollo 11
task list, Apollo 11
trans-lunar injection (TLI), Apollo 11
training, Apollo 11
undocking, Apollo 11
views from Apollo 11
weightlessness, Apollo 11
Collins, Patricia
command modules
Block I
Block II
see also
Apollo 11
Conrad, Pete
Cooper, Gordon
Cronkite, Walter
Cunningham, Walter
Day, Dick
Deiterich, Chuck
descent orbit insertion (DOI)
direct ascent
Duke, Charlie
Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP)
earth orbit rendezvous (EOR)
Edwards Air Force Base
Ellington Air Force Base
extra-vehicular activities (EVAs)
early NASA
Apollo 11
Gemini
Soviet
Explorer 1
F-1 engine
Faget, Max
Fendell, Ed
Feoktistiv, Konstantin
Freeman, Ted
free return
Frick, Charles
Gagarin, Yuri
Garman, Jack
Gemini, Project
Gemini 4
Gemini 5
Gemini 6
Gemini 7
Gemini 8
Gemini 9
Gemini 10
Gemini 11
Gemini 12
Gemini 13
Gilruth, Dr Robert
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