Catalog of Apollo Experiment Operations

Catalog of Apollo Experiment Operations

Author: Thomas A. Sullivan

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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Reviews Apollo mission reports, preliminary science reports, technical crew debriefings, lunar surface operations plans, and various relevant lunar experiment documents, collecting engineering- and operation-specific information by experiment. Organized by discrete experimental and equipment items emplaced or operated on the lunar surface or at zero gravity during the Apollo missions. Also attempts to summarize some of the general problems encountered on the surface and provides guidelines for the design of future lunar surface experiments with an eye toward operations.


Lunar Sourcebook

Lunar Sourcebook

Author: Grant Heiken

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1991-04-26

Total Pages: 796

ISBN-13: 9780521334440

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The only work to date to collect data gathered during the American and Soviet missions in an accessible and complete reference of current scientific and technical information about the Moon.


NASA's Scientist-Astronauts

NASA's Scientist-Astronauts

Author: Shayler David

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-09-19

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 0387493875

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This book provides unique access to the story of how scientists were accepted into the American Space Programme, and reveals how, after four difficult decades, the role of the heroic test pilot astronaut has been replaced by men and women who are science orientated space explorers.