What was the purpose of the Apollo program?
Project Apollo’s goals went beyond landing Americans on the moon and returning them safely to Earth. They included: Establishing the technology to meet other national interests in space. Achieving preeminence in space for the United States.
How much room did the Apollo astronauts have?
Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins spent eight days together travelling about half a million miles to the Moon and back in a space roughly the size of a large car. The astronauts were strapped into bench-like “couches” during launch and landing in the Command Module, which measured 3.9m (12.8ft) at its widest point.
What happened to the Apollo Command Modules?
The exhaustive investigation of the fire and extensive reworking of the Apollo command modules postponed crewed launches until NASA officials cleared them for flight. Saturn IB schedules were suspended for nearly a year, and the launch vehicle that finally bore the designation AS-204 carried a lunar module, or LM, as the payload, instead of a CM.
Which tools and fixtures were used for the Apollo program?
In fact, almost all of the tools and fixtures used in fabrication and assembly of the command and ser vice modules were designed especially for the Apollo program. For the Apollo spacecraft there are five major manufacturing assemblies: the command module, service module, lunar module, launch escape sub system, and the spacecraft-LM adapter.
What was the primary objective of the Apollo program?
The primary objective of the Apollo program was to perform a piloted lunar landing and return safely to Earth. It was only the second time an all-experienced crew had flown an American mission (the first was Apollo 10), and it would be the last until space shuttle mission STS-26 nearly two decades later.
What was the name of Apollo 11’s Lunar Module?
The lunar module was designated LM-5 and had the call-sign “Eagle.” Possible landing sites for Apollo 11 were under study by NASA’s Apollo Site Selection Board for more than two years. Thirty sites were originally considered, but the list was shortened to three for the first lunar landing.