Geography 2090A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Apollo 6, Donn F. Eisele, Launch Escape System
13 Sep 2018
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The apollo program was designed in a sequential manner starts i(cid:374) the earl(cid:455) (cid:1005)96(cid:1004)(cid:859)s. The first step was to build off of the accomplishments of the gemini program, Docking life in space: when apollo itself started conducting missions, the moon was not the immediate goal. First goal was to develop and test the necessary hardware test ability to get to the moon and back before they sent humans on the mission (3-person crew with a separate moon spaceship, 2 spaceships) The lunar lander spaceship to land on the moon. Progression of the missions, apollo 8 was the first, built upon everything prior to the missions. Smaller saturn ib also flew as part of the apollo program, but was not capable of going to the moon. In terms of lift capacity, the saturn v remains the most powerful rocket ever built. It burned liquid fuel hydrogen and oxygen.
