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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
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