Moonshot: The Inside Story of Mankind's Greatest Adventure (51 page)

Glenn, John

Goodard Space Flight Center, Maryland

Goldstone communications station, California

Gordon, Dick

Greene, Jay

Grissinger, John

Grissom, Gus

Grumman Corporation

Haise, Fred

Hamblin, Dora Jane

Hatleburg, Lieutenant Clancy

Hinch, Derryn

Hirasaki, John

Honeysuckle communications station

Hornet
, USS

Houbolt, John

Humphrey, Hubert

In the Shadow of the Moon

International Space Station

Irwin, Jim

Jodrell Bank Observatory

Johnson, Lyndon

Johnson, Sam

Johnson Space Center, Houston
see also
Manned Spaceflight Center, Houston

Jupiter booster

Kelly, Tom

Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Kennedy, John F.

Khrushchev, Nikita

Khrushchev, Sergei

King, Dr Martin Luther

King, Jack

Kissinger, Henry

Komarov, Vladimir

Koos, Dick

Korolev, Sergei

Kosygin, Alexei

Kraft, Chris

Kranz, Gene

Langley Research Center

Lederer, Jerry

Leonov, Alexei

Lewis, Charles 'Skinny'

Life

Lovell, Jim

Low, George

Luna probes

lunar extra-vehicular visor assembly (LEVA)

lunar landing research vehicle (LLRV)

lunar landing training vehicle (LLTV)

lunar module (LM)
Eagle

communications with MOCR

decision to include in mission

development of
see also
lunar modules, development of

ejection/jettisoning of

fuel

inspection of

descent towards and landing on the moon

launch from moon

lunar gravity and

powered descent capability

rendezvous with
Columbia

simulators

surface of moon, time spent on

training to land
see
LLTV
and
simulators

undocking with
Columbia

lunar modules, development of:

LEM

LM-1

LM-2

LM-3

LM-4

LM-5

lunar orbit insertion (LOI)

lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR)

Lunar Orbiter

Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL)

Lunex Project

Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN)

Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), Houston
see also
Johnson Space Center

Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL)

Mission Control Center
see
Mission Control Center, Houston

Marks, Jay

Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

McCandless, Bruce

McDivitt, Jim

McDonald Observatory, Texas

Mercury, Project

Mir Space Station

Mission Control Center, Houston

Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR)

modular equipment stowage assembly (MESA)

moon:

Apollo Project and
see
Apollo Project

dangers of landing on

far side of

gravitational influence

Kennedy's project for landing on
see
Kennedy, John F.

landing sites

'mascons'

origin of

surface

temperature

waste on

Mueller, George

N-1 booster, Soviet

NASA
see also under individual NASA craft, project and site

National Academy of Sciences, US

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)

Neutral Buoyancy Facility, Houston

Nixon, Richard

North American Aviation/Rockwell

Nova rocket

O'Dea, John

O'Hara, Dee

Outer Space Treaty

Paine, Thomas

Parkes communications station

passive thermal control (PTC)

Paules, Gran

Phillips, Sam

'plugs out test'

portable life support system (PLSS)

powered descent initiation (PDI)

Project Horizon

Puddy, Don

Ranger probes

Redstone rocket

Rusk, Dean

Safire, William

Sarkissian, John

Saturn I rocket

Saturn IB rocket

Saturn V rocket

Scheer, Julian

Schirra, Wally

Schmitt, Joe

Schwagmeier, Thomas

Schweickart, Rusty

Scott, Dave

Seamans, Robert

See, Elliot

Sevareid, Eric

Shaffer, Philip

Shea, Joe

Shepard, Alan

Sherrod, Robert

Sibrel, Bart

Skylab

Slayton, Deke

smell of space

Smith, Andrew

Smithsonian Institution

Soviet Academy of Sciences

Soviet Union

Soyuz 1

Soyuz 2

Soyuz 3

Space Task Group, NASA

Sputnik

Sputnik 2

Stafford, Tom

sub-orbital flights

Surveyor probes

UFO sighting, possible Apollo 11 and 121,

Van Allen belts

Vietnam War

'vomit comet'
see
'zero-g airplane'

Voskhod 2

V-2

Walker, Joe

Webb, James

Wendt, Guenter

White, Ed

Willoughby, Buck

Woodruff, Reverend Dean

X-15

Yeager, Chuck

Young, John

'zero-g airplane'

Zieglschmid, John