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Dr. LaFever And her 2 nd and 3 rd hour classes Of Parkway North High School March 27, 2013 A HISTORY OF NASA: MERCURY, GEMINI, AND APOLLO MISSIONS

MERCURY MISSION By: Lydia Nichols

DATES OF THE MISSION 4/18/61 1 st launch simulation at the pad 5/05/61 launch They split the actual launch in half to give the people a rest, the countdown started on the 4 th but the launch happened on the 5 th Soviets launched Yuri Gagarin into space on April 12, 1961, upsetting the US bid to have the first man in space

DURATION, WHO, AND MISSION Duration: 15 min 28 sec Crew: Alan B. Shepard Jr. (Known as the smartest of all Mercury astronauts and famous for staying calm hours on the launch pad, finally announcing Lets light this candle!) Payload: Spacecraft No. 7, Launch Vehicle MR-7 Mission: to see if man is capable to survive in the environment of space; to go out and come back

HIGHLIGHTS AND LANDING Highlights: the mission was successful Landing: May 5, 1961 75 53min longitude 27 13.7min latitude In the Atlantic Ocean

CITATIONS http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/mercury/mr-3/mr-3.htm http://rocketry.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/50-years-ago-today- freedom-7/ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alan_Shepard_in_capsule_ab oard_Freedom_7_before_launch.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alan_Shepard_in_capsule_ab oard_Freedom_7_before_launch.jpg http://people.rit.edu/~deb2741/wf/stage2/americanspacerace.html http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freedom_7_Prelaunch_- _GPN-2000-001009.jpg

LIBERTY BELL 7 By: Deon Lee, Travis Sowell

MISSION/PAYLOAD Mercury-redstone 4 Was caring : Spacecraft # 11, Launch Vehicle S/N MR-8 Launch date: July 21, 1961, 7:20 am EST. The launch was originally scheduled for July 18, 1961 but was rescheduled to July 19, 1961 because of unfavorable weather conditions.

CREW Virgil (Gus) Grissom Back up crew John H. Glen Jr.

HIGHLIGHTS/LOWLIGHTS The MR-4 flight plan was very much the same as that for MR-3. The range was 262.5 nautical miles, the maximum altitude was 102.8 nautical miles, and the period of weightlessness lasted for approximately 5 minutes. Flight successful but the spacecraft was lost during the post landing recovery period as a result of premature actuation of the explosively actuated side egress hatch. The capsule sank in 15,000 feet of water shortly after splashdown. The astronaut egressed from the spacecraft immediately after hatch actuation and was retrieved after being in the water for about 3 to 4 minutes.

LANDING Atlantic Ocean, 302 miles East of launch site. Drogue parachute was deployed at T+9 minutes 41 seconds and main parachute at T+10 minutes 14 seconds. Landing occurred at T+15 minutes 37 seconds

MERCURY-ATLAS 6 (FRIENDSHIP 7) By: Zach Hacker and Matt Rizzo

BASIC SUMMARY February 20 th, 1962 is when it was launched It only last 4 hours and 55 minutes Mission was called Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) (CapCom famously says God speed, John Glenn)

COMMAND MODULES AND LUNAR MODULES Command Module: Friendship 7 No Lunar Module

MEMBERS OF CREW John Glenn was the only member of the crew M Scott Carpenter was the backup crew member for Glenn

HIGHLIGHTS AND LOWLIGHTS The mission was for John Glenn to be the first astronaut to orbit the Earth, and after 3 trips around the Earth, he returned safely back into the Atlantic Ocean Everything went as planned and it couldnt have been a more successful mission in most peoples eyes It did miss the landing zone by about 40 miles but it was not a huge factor in the end

By: Carleigh Jones and Courtney Mcderby

DATES AND LENGTH OF MISSION Launched: May 24, 1962. 7:45:16 EST. Landed: May 24, 1962. 12:41 p.m. EST. 19deg 29min North 64deg 05min West. Length of Mission: Total time weightless 4 hours 39min 32sec.

Crew Member M. Scott Carpenter Command and Lunar Module Mercury spacecraft and Atlas launch He is best known as one of the original seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury in April 1959. Carpenter was the second American to orbit the Earth and the fourth American in space, following Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom and John Glenn. Carpenter and Glenn are the last living members of the Mercury Seven.

HIGHLIGHTS AND LOWLIGHTS Highlight: The performance of the launch vehicle was exceptionally good with the countdown, launch and insertion conforming very closely to planned conditions. Lowlight: Cabin and pressure-suit temperatures were high but not intolerable. Some uncertainties in the data telemetered from the bioinstrumentation prevailed at times during the flight; however, associated information was available which indicated continued well-being of the astronaut.

RE-ENTRY TO EARTH Spacecraft overshot intended target area by 250 nautical miles. After landing, Carpenter reported a severe list angle on the order of 60 degrees from vertical and post flight photographs of the spacecraft taken after egress indicated approximately a 45 degree list angle.

WALLY SCHIRRA Original Mercury astronaut, only astronaut to fly in Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions On October 3, 1962, Schirra became the fifth American in space, piloting the Mercury-Atlas 8 (Sigma 7) on a six-orbit mission lasting 9 hours, 13 minutes, and 11 seconds.Mercury-Atlas 8 The capsule attained a velocity of 17,557 miles per hour (28,255 km/h) and an altitude of 175 statute miles (282 km), orbits the earth six times and landed within 4 miles (6.4 km) of the main Pacific Ocean recovery ship.

GORDON COOPER Cooper was launched into space on May 15, 1963 aboard the Mercury-Atlas 9 ( Faith 7 ) spacecraft, the last Mercury mission.Mercury-Atlas 9 He orbited the Earth 22 times and logged more time in space than all five previous Mercury astronauts combined34 hours, 19 minutes and 49 seconds, traveling 546,167 miles (878,971 km) at 17,547 mph (28,239 km/h), pulling a maximum of 7.6 g (74.48 m/s). g Orbits 22 times, first to sleep on the launchpad, in space, and last to orbit alone

THE GEMINI MISSIONS

GEMINI 3 Gus Grissom and John Young March 23 1965 Ride the Titan missle First time there are two people in space together Issue on re-entry: Oops, the earth rotates beneath us! Gemini 3 splashes down 60 miles short of target landing Grissom gets massively seasick waiting for crews for over 2 hours, but John Young is a navy veteran and did not mind the waves Parade in Manhattan follows mission

GEMINI 4 By: Aaron Lake and Michael Lorenzo Smith II

TWO MAN CREW James McDivitt and Edward H. White II

FOR YOUR INFORMATION.. Gemini 4 (or Gemini IV) was the second manned space flight in NASA's Project Gemini, occurring in June 1965. It was the tenth manned American spaceflight Astronauts James McDivitt and Edward H. White II circled the Earth 66 times in four days, making it the first US flight to approach the five-day flight of the Soviet Vostok 5.

COUNTIUED The highlight of the mission was the first space walk by an American, during which White floated free outside the spacecraft, tethered to it, for approximately 20 minutes. Both of these accomplishments helped the United States overcome the Soviet Union's early lead in the Space Race. The flight was the first American flight to perform many scientific experiments in space, including use of a sextant to investigate the use of celestial navigation for lunar flight in the Apollo program.

GEMINI 7

was a 1965 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the 4th manned Gemini flight, the 12th manned American flight and the 20th spaceflight of all time. Spend 14 days in space

Command Pilot Frank F. Borman, II First spaceflight Pilot James A. Lovell, Jr First spaceflight

Gemini 7 was launched from Complex 19 at 2:30:03 p.m. (2:30:03.702 UT) on 4 December 1965 and inserted into a 161.6 x 328.2 km orbit at 2:36:11

GEMINI 6 Duncan Brown & Sean Hayes

MISSION INFO Dates: Original Launch Rocket Explosion: October 25, 1965 at 3:06 p.m. First Attempt: December 6, 1965 at 9:54 a.m. Successful attempt: December 15, 1965 8:37 a.m. Duration of Mission 1 Day, 1 hour, 51 min, 24 seconds

MISSION INFO (CONT.) Crew Members Stafford and Schirra (left to right) Command Module Gemini 6 Mission Name Gemini 6A

MISSION INFO (CONT.) Highlights 1 ft. from Gemini 7 First Instruments Played in Space (Harmonica) Lowlights Explosion of the original launch rocket on pad

REENTRY 11 miles from intended landing zone Recovered by USS Wasp First Televised recovery

GEMINI 9 Grant Dachroeden Jason Bladow

GEMINI 8 Alex Moore and Collin Weber

DATE OF MISSION The date of the mission was march 16 th 1966

DURATION OF THE MISSION The duration of this mission was 10 hours and 41 minutes

CREW MEMBERS There were only 2 member of this mission Neil Armstrong and David Scott

HIGHLIGHTS AND LOWLIGHTS Early termination of the mission precluded achievement of many mission objectives, but the rendezvous and docking was accomplished, as was the evaluation of the auxiliary tape memory unit and demonstration of controlled reentry. Of the six scientific experiments only the Agena micrometeorite collection was successful. The others -- (1) zodiacal light photography, (2) frog egg growth, (3) synoptic terrain photography, (4) nuclear emulsions, and (5) spectrophotography of clouds -- were incomplete.

RE-ENTRY the spacecraft splashed down in the western Pacific Ocean about 800 km west of Okinawa at 25.22 N, 136.00 E, 2 km from the target. The time was 10:22 p.m., but was during the day at the splashdown site. The crew was picked up by the recovery ship U.S.S. Mason 3 hours later

MODULES The Gemini spacecraft was a cone-shaped capsule consisting of two components, a reentry module and an adaptor module. The adaptor module was an externally skinned, stringer framed structure, with magnesium stringers and an aluminum alloy frame. The reentry module consisted mainly of the pressurized cabin which held the two Gemini astronauts

WORK CITED http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1966-020A

(GEMINI 8) Dave Scott and Neil Armstrong practice docking in space Thursters get stuck and the command module spins uncontrollably in space Thanks to the expert piloting of Armstrong, the re-entry rockets he turns on stop the spinning but use up precious fuel The mission is aborted and splashdown occurs in Okinowa near Japan

GEMINI 9A June 3, 1966 Duration: 3 days, 0 hours, 20 minutes, 50 seconds 7 th manned Gemini flight 13 th manned American flight

CREW Elliot M. See, Jr. Charles M. Bassett II This crew died in a plane crash (attempting to land at Lambert) four months before the launch. Thomas P. Stafford (vet) Eugene A. Cernan

OBJECTIVE Perform rendezvous and docking and conduct EVA 7 experiments

OUTCOME Training craft did not jettison a shroud, so docking was not possible. Unable to test an Air Force maneuvering unit due to foggy visor. Landing a success: only.704 miles off target

GEMINI 12 Jason Lohe and Andy Huss

DATE AND DURATION November 11, 1966 November 15, 1966 The mission lasted four days

CREW Actual Crew Command Pilot Jim Lovell Pilot Edwin Aldrin Backup Crew: Command Pilot L Gordon Cooper Pilot Eugene Cernan Support Crew Stuart Roosa, Charles Conrad, and William Anders

HIGHLIGHTS 14 experiments were conducted during the mission ranging from frog egg growth to dim-sky photography

RE-ENTRY Gemeni 12 missed its target by 4.8 km The Command Module was called Gemini XII

APOLLO I Brian Lambert http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Apollo_1_patch.png

THE GEAR Command Module: CM-012 Rocket: Saturn 1B Departure Location: Cape Canaveral

THE MISSION Target Launch Date: February 21, 1967 Duration: The mission never got off the ground On January 27, 1967 while preforming a launch pad test the cabin caught on fire and killed the three man crew http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5158AE8XACL._SL500_SS500_.jpg

Two years after the tragedy of Apollo 1 Successful orbit APOLLO 7

APOLLO 8 By Jackie Harris

Launched from Cape Kennedy on Dec.21, 1968 Splashed into the ocean at 10:51 a.m. on Dec. 27

CREW MEMBERS Frank Borman (Commander) http://www.spacefacts.de/bi os/astronauts/english/borm an_frank.htm www.c-span.org

WILLIAM ANDERS Lunar Module Pilot commons.wikimedia.org www.spacefacts.de

JAMES A. LOVELL JR. Commander Module Pilot www.spacefacts.dewww.spacefacts.de - www.spacefacts.de www.lincolnleadershipprize.org

HIGHLIGHTS Was the first mission to take humans to the moon and back First manned mission launched on the Saturn V First manned mission launched from NASAs latest(at the time) moonport First live T.V. coverage of the moons surface

LOWLIGHTS Lovell accidently erased some of the computers memory, forcing him to do a manual re-alignment in the system so their location could be monitored

RE-ENTRY INTO EARTH The descent back to Earth was normal, everything went as planned except for the landing in the ocean The parachutes dragged the spacecraft into a Stable 2 position for 6 minutes, however Borman took control and the spacecraft went back to its apex-up postion

Command Module- Apollo 8 Lunar Modules- None flown

APOLLO 9 Cameron Carter http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo9.html

MISSION DATE Launched March 3, 1969 Landed March 13, 1969 at 12:01 pm Flight lasted 241 hours, 53 seconds

OBJECTIVE OF MISSION Evaluate crew operations of lunar module Demonstrate docked vehicle functions in an earth-orbit mission Verifies that combined space craft is good for lunar flight http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=pictures+from+apollo+9%5C&source=images&cd=&c ad=rja&docid=PljTzMWrE2M6XM&tbnid=VjFP2P5JexiduM:&ved=0CAQQjB0&url=http%3A%2 F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2Fmultimedia%2Fimagegallery%2Fimage_feature_1383.html&ei=wihTUf P3HsjYywHP8YH4AQ&bvm=bv.44342787,d.dmQ&psig=AFQjCNG14eoZclyeqYBIAoDpidKbm GoOcQ&ust=1364490806327239

CREW MEMBERS James A. McDivitt (commander) Russell L. Schweickart (Lunar Module Pilot) David R. Scott (Command Module Pilot) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ James_McDivitt http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/ht mlbios/schweickart-rl.html http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/sc ott-dr.html

WHAT HAPPENED??? HighlightsLowlights First manned Apollo docking & undocking Spacewalks tested out new space suits with mobility pack Pack had: communications and oxygen that circulated water through suit to keep astronauts cool Eliminates umbilical connection to spacecraft Carried largest payload ever in orbit Space sickness cuts extravehicular space walks short

RETURN TO EARTH Re-entry extended one revolution Heavy seas in recovery area On target (within 3 miles of recovery ship) Crew saw recovery ship

NAMES OF MODULES Lunar module=Gumdrop Command module=Spider http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=pictures+from+apollo+9%5C&source=images&cd=&c ad=rja&docid=1RL82YJpL5qFOM&tbnid=sSV3x6gpxM6rBM:&ved=0CAQQjB0&url=http%3A% 2F%2Fnssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov%2Fnmc%2FspacecraftDisplay.do%3Fid%3D1969- 018A&ei=HylTUennJMePyAH2oYHoDg&bvm=bv.44342787,d.dmQ&psig=AFQjCNG14eoZclye qYBIAoDpidKbmGoOcQ&ust=1364490806327239

APOLLO 10 Katherine billingsley

DATE OF MISSION/AND BACK may 18 1969 To return on may 26 1969 It was 192 hours 3 minutes 23 seconds Less than for miles from target

CREW MEMBERS Thomas p. Stafford John w. young Eugene a. cernan

HIGHLIGHTS AND LOWLIGHTS The second to orbit the moon First to get a few thousand feet from the moon

COMMAND MODULE AND LUNAR MODULE NAMES l.M: snoopy C.M: Charlie brown

Thomas Beilsmith APOLLO 11

Mission objective to land a crew safely on moon and return to Earth (Goal set by President Kennedy on May 25 1961) Additional objectives = live televised coverage, solar wind experiment, seismic experiment, collect lunar samples, photograph terrain THE MISSION

Launched from Cape Kennedy on July 16, 1969 2 hours and 44 minutes later Apollo 11 reached lunar orbit July 20 Astronauts entered the Lander Eagle and made final checks before launching to the surface at 100 hours into mission Total mission Duration: July 16-24, 1969 (8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes MISSION FACTS

Commander Neil Armstrong, Commander Module Pilot Michael Collins, Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Buzz Aldrin 530 million people watched televised landing on July 20 CREW MEMBERS

Aviator in U.S. Navy, flew 78 missions in Korea Received Bachelors degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Purdue in 1955 Became civilian test pilot for NACA Professor of Aeronautics at University of Cincinnati First man on moon NEIL ARMSTRONG

Graduated from U.S. Military Academy 1952 Joined Air Force as fighter pilot, and later graduated from USAF as experimental test pilot Became Director of National Air and Space Museum at Smithsonian in April 1971 after retiring from NASA Acted as Pilot of Command Module on mission MICHAEL COLLINS

Graduated from U.S. Military Academy at West Point with mechanical engineering degree in 1951 Flew 66 combat missions in Korea with Air Force Backup pilot for Gemini 9, pilot on Gemini 12, backup module pilot for Apollo 8 Second man on moon BUZZ ALDRIN

Mission was a success, crew landed the Eagle on lunar surface and completed objectives Eagle successfully returned to the Columbia in space from the Lunar surface Due to bad weather the Apollo 11 target are was shifted 250 miles from original point Apollo was recovered by U.S.S Hornet MISSION OVERVIEW

APOLLO 12 Kyle Toser-Aldaz

DATES Launch on November 14 th 1969 Splashdown on November 24 th 1969 Duration: Ten days

CREW Charles Conrad Jr. Commander Alan L. Bean Lunar Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon Jr. Command Module Pilot http://upload.wi kimedia.org/wi kipedia/commo ns/c/c8/Conrad -c.jpg http://www. astronautix. com/graphi cs/i/ibeanal a.jpg http://www.js c.nasa.gov/ Bios/portrait s/gordon- rf.jpg

HIGHLIGHTS/LOWLIGHTS Struck twice by lightning during launch. No permanent damage occurred. Three fuel cells were knocked offline by lightning. Power supply couldnt handle the necessary current, and caused much of the instrumentation to malfunction. Problem easily fixed by switching to a backup power supply. Lunar module separation went fine, and so did lunar landing. The camera used to film was accidentally rendered unusable when one crew member inadvertently pointed it at the sun. The re-entry was standard, and on-target. One of the crew members was knocked unconscious by a falling camera.

COMMAND AND LUNAR MODULES Yankee Clipper Intrepid http://www.ninfinger.org/models/vault2010/LM%20Landing%20Gear/ap12-S69- 39262.jpg upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Apollo_12_Yankee_Clipper.JPG

APOLLO 12 November 1969 Al Beam, Pete Conrad, and Richard Gordon Gordon and Beam land in the Ocean of Storms on the moon It took 8 hrs to get 75 lbs of rocks Discovered that bacteria on earth survived in space

APOLLO 13 Stephanie Haug

THE MISSION Launched April 11, 1970 at 1:13 p.m. CST Duration of 5 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes and 41 seconds Command Module: Odyssey Lunar Module: Aquarius Backup crew member was used because original command module pilot was exposed to measles http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-13/apollo-13.html Houston, we have a problem

THE CREW James A. Lovell Jr. Commander Fred W. Haise Jr. Lunar Module Pilot John L. Swigert Jr. Command Module Pilot http:// www.biography.com/people/james-a-lovell-jr-37140 http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/haise-fw.html http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Swigert

HIGHLIGHTS AND LOWLIGHTS 5.5 minutes after liftoff, the center engine shut down early, and the No. 2 oxygen tank blew up at 56 hours which caused No. 1 oxygen tank to fail as well. There was then a loss of two fuel cells in the CM. The crew had to make it to the LM lifeboat, which had a working engine. However the crew had to ration water, conserve energy, and transfer the navigation system all in effort to make it home safely.

RE-ENTRY April 17, 1970 Pacific Ocean Near Samoa Recovery Ship: USS Iwo Jima http://yawatahamacity.blogspot.com/2011/08/i-samoa-by-melissa.html

Ian Brown 3 rd Block http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_14- insignia.png

TIMES January 31, 1971 at 4:04:02 pm local time(Kennedy Space Center, Florida)after a 40 minute, 2 second delay due to launch site weather restrictions. Duration: 9 d 00 h 01 m 58 s Lunar Surface Time: 1 d 09 h 30 m 29 s

CREW MEMBERS Stuart A. RoosaAlan B. Shepard, Jr. Edgar D. Mitchell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_14_crew.jpg

HIGHLIGHTS Shepard hit two golf balls on the lunar surface with a makeshift club he had brought. Made the most precise landing on record, 87ft from target. Shepard set a new distance-traveled record on the lunar surface of approximately 9,000 feet. During the two traverses, the astronauts collected 94 pounds of rocks and soil for return to Earth. The samples were scheduled to go to 187 scientific teams in the United States, as well as 14 other countries for study and analysis Roosa, who worked in forestry in his youth, took several hundred tree seeds on the flight. These were germinated after the return to Earth, and widely distributed around the world as commemorative Moon Trees

LOWLIGHTS Docking with the lunar module, took 6 attempts before hard dock was achieved. Due to communications system problems, the first period of extra vehicular activity, or EVA, began almost one hour later than scheduled with Commander Alan Shepard setting foot on the lunar surface at 114 hours, 31 minutes GET Rossa experienced some difficulties with the high-resolution, motion-compensating Hycon Lunar Topographic Camera while attempting to photograph the Descartes area, the landing site planned for Apollo 16.

MODULES Command Module: CM-110, Kitty Hawk Service Module: SM-110, Antares

RE-ENTRY On the way back to Earth, the crew conducted the first U.S. materials processing experiments in space. The command module Kitty Hawk splashed down in the South Pacific Ocean on February 9, 1971 at 21:05 [UTC], approximately 760 nautical miles (1,410 km) south of American Samoa. After recovery by the ship USS New Orleans, the crew was flown to Pago Pago International Airport in Tafuna for a reception before being flown on a C-141 cargo plane to Honolulu. The Apollo 14 astronauts were the last lunar explorers to be quarantined on their return from the Moon.

APOLLO 15 Kyle Schifferdecker

DATE OF MISSION/DURATION/CREW MEMBERS The date of Apollo 15 was July 26 th to August 7 th 1971 The duration of the mission was 12 days The crew members of Apollo 15 were: David R Scott, Alfred M Worden and James B Irwin

LOWLIGHTS AND HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MISSION During the launch, the S-IC failed because of some damage that was caused to it. There were oxygen leaks. the two astronauts spent 18 hours outside of the LM and collected approximately 77 kg (170 lbs) of lunar samples. it was a successful mission!

RE-ENTRY INTO EARTH-ON TARGET, OFF TARGET/ ANYTHING SIGNIFICANT? one of the three parachutes on the CM failed to deploy properly, only two were required for a safe landing (one extra for redundancy). Upon landing in the North Pacific Ocean, the crew were recovered and taken aboard the recovery ship, the USS Okinawa after a mission lasting 12 days, 7 hours, 11 minutes, and 33 seconds.

MODULES Apollo 15 used Command/Service Module CSM-112, Lunar Module LM-10, but the Lunar Module went unused and is now on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

APOLLO 16 Cailyn Stamp

CREW MEMBERS Commander: John W. Young http://www.fanboy.com/2009/03/gemini-3-launches-a-photo-essay- from-44-years-ago-today.html Lunar Module Pilot: Charles M. Duke Jr. http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/art-59349/Charles-M- Duke-Jr

Command Module Pilot: Thomas K. Mattingly || http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/12994 9/STS-4-astronauts-Thomas-K-Mattingly-and- Henry-W

Date(s): 12:54 p.m EST April 16, 1972 from Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center. Duration: 256 Hours, 51 minutes, 5 seconds. Highlights: 209 pounds of samples were collected from Young and Duke. Lowlights: Some command and service module problems. Due to an error signal, the spacecraft computer began to ignore input. An experiment was lost after Young tripped on an electronics cable, accidentally destroying it. 4 stops were deleted from the 3rd EVA and one stop was deleted from the 2nd EVA both due to time constraints.

Module Names: LM,CSM Re-entry into Earth: Normal entry and landing resulted in splashdown at 0 degrees 42 0 S, 156 degrees 12 49 W, just before 3 p.m. EST April 27.

APOLLO XVII Jason Thompson

APOLLO XVII Apollo 17 launched at 12:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on December 7, 1972, with a three man crew consisting of: Eugene A. Cernan -Commander - Charles M. Duke Jr. -Lunar Module Pilot- Ronald E. Evans Command Module Pilot

APOLLO XVII The mission lasted 12 days, 13 hours, and 52 minutes. Command Module: CSM-114 (America) Lunar Module: LM-12 (Challenger) The main objectives of the mission was focused on geological surveying and sampling of materials and surface features in a preselected area of the Taurus- Littrow region; deploying and activating surface experiments; and conducting in-flight experiments and photographic tasks during lunar orbit and transearth coast.

APOLLO XVII HIGHLIGHTS/LOWLIGHTS Mission was launched 2hrs and 40mins late due to countdown issues and air tank issues. Orbited the moon 75 times. On Dec 10 th at 8:32pm, the crew safely reached the moons surface, 84 miles off from the landing spot previously planned. Took 3 separate outings on the moons surface. During the first walk they planted the flag which was previously planted by Apollo 11. The second walk was the longest of any other walks performed on the moon, 7hrs and 37mins, where they went on a long excursion on a rover. The third walk, they used the rover to visit North Massif. Brought back a record 253 pounds of rock and soil.

APOLLO XVII The return trip to earth and splashdown on Dec 19 th, 1972 in the Pacific Ocean was normal and without any major issues.

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