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... built to test the full-sized articles on the Apollo vehicle, the lunar module …, and also the command and service modules all together is one big piece, to test them in the vibration ... Environment Simulation Laboratory that was conceived to be able to test the complete Apollo command and service module in the conditions of the deep space environment, not only the vacuum, not only ... of that kind. The SESL laboratory, we came across any number of problems in the command module that needed to be improved, or the design … changed. They were invaluable in doing suit ...

... served as command module pilot on Apollo 11 , July 16-24, 1969--the first lunar landing mission. He remained aboard the command module , Columbia , on station in lunar orbit while Neil Armstrong, spacecraft commander, and Edwin Aldrin, lunar module pilot, descended to the lunar surface in their lunar module Eagle. Collins performed ...

... served as backup pilot for the Gemini 4 flight and backup Commander for the Gemini 9 flight, as well as backup Commander to Neil Armstrong for the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission ... mission, commanded by Lovell with Pilot Edwin Aldrin, began on November 11, 1966. This 4-day, 59-revolution flight brought the Gemini program to a successful close. Lovell served as Command Module Pilot ... humans to leave the Earth's gravitational influence. He completed his fourth mission as Spacecraft Commander of the Apollo 13 flight, April 11-17, 1970, and became the first man to ...

... as command module pilot on Apollo 14 , January 31 - February 9, 1971. With him on man's third lunar landing mission were Alan B. Shepard (spacecraft commander) and Edgar D. Mitchell (lunar module pilot ... this 33-hour period of lunar surface activities, Roosa remained in lunar orbit aboard the command module, "Kittyhawk," to conduct a variety of assigned photographic and visual observations. Apollo 14 achievements include ...

... know. Guys like Milt J. Milton Heflin went out on the //Hornet// to deactivate the command module when it landed. So that is out there. Then all the astronaut books pretty much ... out of Apollo 13 was that we didn't get to the water in the command module quickly enough and it froze, and we had a water shortage, and it was kind ... . Well, by not doing that, there is a valve in the main hatch in the command module that automatically inflows when the pressure outside gets greater than the pressure inside. Well, it ...

... lbs. Key objective of flight planned for Nov. 7 would be evaluation of Apollo Apollo Command Module Command Module heat shield under conditions encountered on return from moon mission. Flight would also test thermal ... 599 lb spacecraft, launched from Eastern Test Range ETR Oct. 18, had received 1,500 commands. It was 3,000th object in orbit since SPUTNIK I in 1957; 100th satellite orbited ...

... also got to go into the simulator and have a familiarization in the command module simulator and the lunar module simulator. That was interesting, because to get into those things, you have to ... was involved in the simulation, because of course the CSM Command and Service Module people were still there and the LM Lunar Module people were doing their part of the simulation. While we ... thought we’d done a pretty decent job, but Rick Frederick H. Hauck was the commander on the first rendezvous flight, and they had a crew debriefing afterwards, and he said ...

... existed in the Apollo capsule, but disputed Board's charge that "deficiencies existed in Apollo Command Module Command Module design, workmanship, and quality control. . . ." NAA's Director of Research and Engineering Dr. John F ... hazardous. Contingency preparations to permit escape or rescue of the crew from an internal Apollo Command Module Command Module fire were not made.' "How could those in charge of the test have `failed to ...

... caused Apollo Command Module Command Module to stabilize in proper attitude. After jettison of the Launch Escape System LES , the hard part of the boost protective cover, and the forward heat shield, Apollo Command Module Command Module made ...

... , 4/28/66, 24)'' Fire in altitude chamber used to simulate environment of Apollo Apollo Command Module Command Module (CM) at AiResearch Manufacturing Div. Torrance (Calif.) Facility severely damaged Apollo Environmental Control System, which ... improvement in selection of "some materials used in the Environmental Control System and Apollo Apollo Command Module Command Module " and pointed to a "potential fire hazard from arcing or direct short circuits." ''(Senate, Hearing ...

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